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Home Dictionary Name: bkberkelium
a chemical element of the transuranic series Chemical symbol Bk atomic number 97 atomic weight 247 It is a radioactive element with no stable isotopes the longest lived isotope is of mass number 24707 decaying by alpha emission with a half life of 1400 years The isotope with atomic weight 249 has a half life of 314 days and was isolated in weighable quantities...
Bk
the chemical symbol for berkelium...
Action
Action, conduct, something done; also the form prescribed by Law for the recovery of one's due, or the lawful demand of one's right. Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio quod alicui debetur.-(An action is nothing else than the right of suing in a court of justice for that which is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are properly criminal actions. There were formerly three classes of actions in England: personal actions, in which the plaintiff sought to recover a debt or damages from the defendant; real actions, in which he sought to establish his title to land or other hereditaments; mixed actions, in which he sought only to establish his right to possession of land. All forms of action are now abolished, but there still inevitably remains the distinction between actions in personam brou...
Adulterine guilds
Adulterine guilds, traders acting as a corporation without a charter, and paying a fine annually for permission to exercise their usurped privileges, Smith's Wealth of Nations, bk. 1. C. 10....
Bounty
Bounty, (1) a premium paid by Government to the producers, exporters, or importers of certain Articles, or to those who employ ships in certain trades, with a view of encouraging the establishment of some new branch of industry, or of fostering and extending a trade that is believed to be of paramount importance. See Smith's Wealth of Nations, Bk. iv. c. v. Bounties have been entirely abolished in England, and the Sugar Convention Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 21), which authorized restrictions upon the importation of bounty-fed sugar into the United Kingdom, has been repealed.(2) Queen Anne's Bounty: see BOUNTY OF QUEEN ANNE.(3) Money paid to officers and crew of a king's ship which had successfully engaged pirates, slave traders, etc.(4) King's Bounty: the grant made by the Crown on the birth of three or more infants in wedlock at one confinement.Means a premium or benefit offered or given especially by a Government, to induce someone to take action or perform service e.g. a bounty for the...
Burden of proof
Burden of proof [onus probandi, Lat.]. the most prominent canon of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, nonqui negat; Actori incumbit onus probandi; and Affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio. The burden of proof lies on the person who has to support his case by proof of a fact which is peculiarly within his own knowledge, or of which he is supposed to be cognizant. See Best on Evidence, Bk. III., Pt. 1, ch. 2.The expression 'burden of proof' really means two different things. It means sometimes that a party is required to prove an allegation before judgment can be given in its favour; it also means that on a contested issue one of the two contending parties has to introduce evidence, Narayan Bhagwantrao Gosavi v. Gopal Vinayak Gosavi, AIR 1960 SC 100: (1960) 1 SCR 773: (1960) SCJ 263.The phrase 'burden of proof' has not been defined in the Indian Evidence Act....
Cato street conspiracy
Cato street conspiracy, an extraordinary plot to assassinate the entire Cabinet and get possession of London by means of an armed mob. The scheme was divulged to the authorities by an informer, and the conspirators, the chief of whom was a man named Thistlewood, were apprehended, and five of them brought to trial and executed. See R. v. Thistloewood, (1820) 33 St.Tr. 681; Martineau's History of the Thirty Years' Peace, Bk. II. c. i....
Cucking-Stoll
Cucking-Stoll. a chair on which females in ancient times for certain offences, as for being 'Common scolds' were fastened and ducked in a pond, Steph. Com., bk. Vi. Ch. xi...
Earnest
Earnest [fr. eornest, Sax.], the sum paid by the buyer of goods in order to bind the seller to the terms of the agreement. It is enacted by the 4th s. of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, re-enacting, but not quite in the same words, the 17th section of the Statute of Frauds, 29 Car. 2, c. 3, that 'a contract for the sale of any goods, for the price of 10l. or upwards, shall not be enforceable by action, unless the buyer accept part of the goods or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part payment,' or some note in writing of the bargain be made and signed by the parties to be charged or their agents.As to what amount is sufficient earnest, Blackstone lays it down (Bk. II. p. 447) that 'if any part of the price is paid down, if it be but a penny, or any portion of the goods is delivered by way of earnest,' it is binding. To constitute earnest the thing must be given as a token of ratification of the contract, and it should be expressly stated so by the giver.The following p...
Fourierism
Fourierism, an elaborate form of non-communistic Socialism. See Mill's Pol. Econ., Bk. II. c. 1....
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