Block System - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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 signal
One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also...
Uses
Uses (History). A use is the intention or purpose, express or implied, upon which property is to be held. The Common Law treated the actual possessor for all purposes as the owner of the property. It was not difficult to find him out, since the possession of his estate was conferred upon him by a formal and notorious ceremony, technically called livery of seisin, which was performed openly and in the presence of the people of the locality.It soon became evident that the simple rules of the Common Law were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people.Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities.A system was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law. Two methods of transferring realty began to co-exist in this country-the ancient Common Law system, and the later invention, which is denomi...
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