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A prefix signifying alongside of beside beyond against amiss as parable literally a placing beside paradox that which is contrary to opinion parachronism...
Fossway
Fossway [fr. fossus, Lat., digged], one of the four ancient Roman ways through England. Trevisa describes it thus: 'The first and gretest of the foure weyes is called fosse, and stretches oute of the southe into the north, and begynneth from the corner of Cornwaille, and passeth forth by Devenshyre, by Somersete, and forth besides Tetbury, pon Cotteswold, besides Coventre, unto Leycester, and so forth by wylde pleynes towards Newerke, and endeth at Lincoln.'-Polychron. 1. 1, c. xiv....
Insurance
Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1.Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is, to bind himself to make good such loss should it occur. In this contract, the chances of benefit are equal to the insured and the insurer. The first actually pays a certain sum, and the latter undertakes to pay a larger, if an accident should happen. The one renders his property secure; the other receives money with the probability that it is clear gain. The instrument by which the contract is made is called a policy; the stipulated consideration, a premium. As to what is known as a coupon policy, i.e., a coupon cut out of a diary, etc., see General Accident, etc., Assce. Corpn. v. Robertson, 1909 AC 404.Insurable Interest must be possessed by the person taking out a policy; he must be so circumstanced as to have benefit from the existence of the person or thing insured, and some preju...
collation
collation [French, from Latin collatio bonorum (in Roman law) contribution made by emancipated heirs to an estate under an intestate succession, literally, bringing together of goods] in the civil law of Louisiana : the actual or supposed return of goods to the mass of the succession that is made by an heir who received property in advance for the purpose of having the property divided with the rest of the succession compare hotchpot NOTE: Children and grandchildren of a decedent must return anything that they received in advance by donation inter vivos. Further, they cannot claim legacies made to them unless made expressly by the decedent as an advantage over their coheirs to be received besides their portion of the succession. Donations made to a grandchild by a grandparent during the life of the child's father are not subject to collation. A collation may be made in kind by the actual delivering up of the thing given, or by taking less from the succession in proportion to the v...
sequester
sequester -tered -ter·ing [Anglo-French sequestrer, from Middle French, from Latin sequestrare to hand over to a trustee, from sequester third party to whom disputed property is entrusted, agent, from secus beside, otherwise] 1 : to place (as a jury or witness) in seclusion or isolation NOTE: Juries are sequestered in order to preserve their impartiality. Witnesses are sequestered so that their testimony is not influenced by the testimony of prior witnesses. 2 a : to seize esp. by a writ of sequestration b : to deposit (property) in sequestration n : sequestration ...
Beside
At the side of on one side of...
Besides
On one side...
Cast iron
Highly carbonized iron the direct product of the blast furnace used for making castings and for conversion into wrought iron and steel It can not be welded or forged is brittle and sometimes very hard Besides carbon it contains sulphur phosphorus silica etc...
Cleistogamic
Having beside the usual flowers other minute closed flowers without petals or with minute petals said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self fertilization...
corncockle
a European annual Agrostemma githago having large trumpet shaped reddish purple flowers and poisonous seed a common weed in grainfields and beside roadways naturalized in America...
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