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Block-age, is a condition of a large block of items of property (as share of stock) that requires special valuation for purposes of estate and gift tax because the value of the items sold as a block differs from their value if sold individually, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 53.Means the condition of a large block of items of property (as shares of stock) that requires special valuation of purposes of estate and gift tax because the value of items sold as a block differs from their value if sold individually, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 53....
Block system
A system by which the track is divided into short sections as of three or four miles and trains are so run by the guidance of electric or combined electric and pneumatic signals that no train enters a section or block until the preceding train has left it as in absolute blocking or that a train may be allowed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution as in permissive blocking...
Block
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress to prevent passage from through or into by obstructing the way used both of persons and things often followed by up as to block up a road or harbor to block an entrance...
Block chain
A chain in which the alternate links are broad blocks connected by thin side links pivoted to the ends of the blocks used with sprocket wheels to transmit power as in a bicycle...
Blocking
The act of obstructing supporting shaping or stamping with a block or blocks...
Age
Age, the criminal responsibility of males and females, and their power to do certain acts, depends upon their age. A child under 7 cannot commit any offence; between the ages of 7 and 14 is presumed to be doli incapax, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of the infant's capacity to discern good from evil (malitia supplet 'tatem-malice supplies age). The old rule in criminal matters was that a person of the age of 14 might be capitally punished for any capital offence, but under the age of 7 he could not. A male under the age of 14 years is presumed impotent as well as doli incapax, and since the presumption of impotence cannot be rebutted, R. v. Phillips, 8 C& P 736, he cannot be convicted of an offence involving carnal knowledge, except as a principal in the second degree in a rape, or the like, where if he has a mischievous discretion, the presumption of impotence will not excuse him from aiding and assisting in the commission of the offence. He may, it seems, be convict...
age of majority
age of majority :the age at which a person is granted by law the rights (as ability to sue) and responsibilities (as liability under contract) of an adult compare emancipate NOTE: At common law, the age of majority was 21. Age of majority is now set by statute, in most states at 18. The age at which a person may perform various acts, as legally drink alcoholic beverages, make a binding contract, or make a valid will, does not necessarily correspond with the age of majority. ...
legal age
legal age : an age at which a person becomes entitled under the law to engage in a particular activity or becomes responsible for particular acts [the legal age for drinking in this state] ;broadly : age of majority compare age of consent, emancipate ...
Full age
Full age, twenty-one years. a man is competent in law to do anything as a person of full age on the day preceding his 21st birthday, because the completion of the 21st year is supposed to belong as much to the day before as to the day after the imaginary interval at which it takes place, Hals. L.E., tit. 'Age'.The age of legal majority; legal age, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 680....
block grant
block grant : an unrestricted federal grant ...
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