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Home Dictionary Name: bearingArmorial 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....
bear
bear bore [bōr] borne [bōrn] also: born vt 1 : to physically carry (as an object or message) [the right of the people to keep and arms "U.S. Constitution amend. II"] 2 : yield [the stock will a dividend] 3 a : to admit of : allow [whatever price the market will ] b : assume accept [you legal responsibility for him] vi : to relate or have relevance [will admit evidence ing on her defense] ...
Bearing
The manner in which one bears or conducts ones self mien behavior carriage...
bear jam
A traffic jam caused by tourists stopping to look at bears near the road a phenomenon once common in Yellowstone Park Wyoming...
Bear State
Arkansas a nickname from the many bears once inhabiting its forests...
load bearing
Supporting a load10 from parts of a structure above as a load bearing wall...
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