Bell Metal - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bell metalBell metal
A hard alloy or bronze consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin used for making bells...
Bronze
An alloy of copper and tin to which small proportions of other metals especially zinc are sometimes added It is hard and sonorous and is used for statues bells cannon etc the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle as in bell metal and speculum metal...
Bell
A hollow metallic vessel usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth containing a clapper or tongue and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck...
Metals, dealers in old
Metals, dealers in old, defined as any person dealing in, buying, and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such Articles only, or together with second-hand goods or marine stores, and the term 'old metals' means the said Articles. See (English) Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of an offence against the Act, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. See also (English) Public Stores Act, 1875, ss. 9, 10, and 11 and Public Health Amendment Act,...
Bell
Bell. As to rent by ringing church bells, see Doe d. Edney v. Benham, (1845) 7 QB 976; and for a case of nuisance by bell-ringing, see Soltau v. De Held, (1851) 2 Sim NS 133. As to annoyance in street by ringing doorbell, see (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 28; (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54; and STREET OFFENCES....
Bell crank
A lever whose two arms form a right angle or nearly a right angle having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms etc and also in machinery...
Belled
Hung with a bell or bells...
Mote-bell
Mote-bell, the bell which was used by the Saxons to summon people to the Court....
Sanctus Bell
Sanctus Bell, a bell tolled in the Communion Service at the moment of the elevation of the sacred elements. The rite is illegal in the Church of England, Re St. John the Evangelist, 1909, P. 6....
Metallic
Of or pertaining to a metal of the nature of metal resembling metal as a metallic appearance a metallic alloy...
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