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A kind of movable dam in one form consisting of two leaves resting against each other at the top when raised and folding down one over the other when lowered for deepening shallow parts in a river...
Dam
Dam [fr. dam, Dan.; dammer, Icel.], a boundary or confinement; a mole an embankment to restain water....
Daum, Dam
Daum, Dam, a copper coin, the 40th part of a rupee, Indian...
Justitia debet esse LIBERA, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; PLENA, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et CELER, quita dilatio qu'dam negatio
Justitia debet esse LIBERA, quia nihil iniquius venali justitia; PLENA, quia justitia non debet claudicare; et CELER, quita dilatio qu'dam negatio. 2 Inst. 56.-(Justice ought to be unbought, because nothing is more hateful than venal justice; full, for justice ought not to halt; and quick, for delay is a kind of denial.) compare the 29th chapter of Magna Charta, post, MAGNA CHARTA....
Man-trap
Man-trap, engines to catch trespassers, unlawful, unless set in a dwelling-house for defence between the Persons Act, 1861 (English) (24 & 25 25Vict. c. 100), s. 31....
Armorial bearings
Armorial bearings, a device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. There is nothing, however, to prevent persons assuming arbitrary insignia and armorial bearings; and all persons entitled to bear arms can register their genealogies and families at the Heralds' College, Benet's Hill, London, on payment of a moderate fee, the heralds being the examiners of these matters and the recorders of genealogies. 43 Geo. 3, c. 161, imposed an assessed tax upon armorial bearings, whether borne on plate, carriages, seals, or in any other way. This Act is now replaced by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 19, by which 'armorial bearings' includes any armorial bearings, crest, or ensign, by whatever name called, and whether registered in the College of Arms or not. This Act, by s. 18, fixes the tax as fo...
Child-bearing
Child-bearing. The English law admits of no presumption as to the time when a woman ceases to bear children, though this enters into most other codes, and the practice of the Courts in treating women of a certain age as past child-bearing is not a rule of law but is a mere rule of convenience in the administration fo estates; there is no legal impossibility in a woman 100 years old bearing a child; see Farwell on Powers, p. 295 and cases there referred to; Co. Litt. 40 b. The possibility of bearing a child after the age of fifty-four was recognized by the Court of Appeal in Corxton v. May, (1878) 9 Ch D 388, in a case where the woman had been married only three years....
Kodiak bear
A large brown bear Ursus middendorffi syn Ursus arctos middendorffi of coastal Alaska and British Columbia related to the grizzly bear called also Kodiak bear...
Bushings and bearing
Bushings and bearing, As the functions of bushings are the same as that of the bearings, sometimes bushings are also called bearings. But when these two articles are known in the market by two different names, it cannot be said that they are same and identical, even though they perform the same functions, Jain Engineering Co. v. Collector of Customs, (1987) 4 SCC 492 (496): AIR 1987 SC 2279: (1988) 1 SCR 220....
Bear
Bear, a cant term used in the Stock Exchange to denote one who has sold stocks or share he does not possess in the hope of purchasing them at a lower price before the time arrives for completion of his contract by delivery of the stock. A 'Bear' is therefore one who sells for a fall in price as contrasted with a 'Bull' (q.v.), who buys for a rise in price....
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