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Piece

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole in any manner as by cutting splitting breaking or tearing a part a portion as a piece of sugar to break in pieces...

Piccage

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths...

Overrake

To rake over or sweep across from end to end as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea...

Ossifragous

Serving to break bones bone breaking...

O the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet derives its form value and name from the Greek O through the Latin The letter came into the Greek from the Phoelignician which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian Etymologically the letter o is most closely related to a e and u as in E bone AS bamacrn E stone AS stamacrn E broke AS brecan to break E bore AS beran to bear E dove AS dumacrfe E toft tuft tone tune number F nombre...

Devil on the neck

Devil on the neck, an instrument of torture, formerly used to extort confessions, etc. It was made of several irons, which were fastened to the neck and legs and wrenched together so as to break the back...

Destroy

Destroy, to destroy means to deprive of life, kill, wipe out or annihilate. In other words s. 29 bars anyone from completely, irreparably and irreversibly putting an end to wild life or to the habitat in a sanctuary, Essar Oil Ltd. v. Halar Utkarsh Samiti, AIR 2004 SC 1834 (1843). [Wild Life (Protection) Act]According to Oxford English Dictionary, means to undo-break into useless piece or reduce into useless from, consumer or dissolve any material, structure or object, Regina v. Murphy, (2003) 1 WLR 422....

Quarantine, or Quarentaine

Quarantine, or Quarentaine. 1. By Magna Carta, the widow shall not be distrained to marry afresh, if she choose to live without a husband, but she shall not, however, marry against the consent of the Lord; and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are called the widow's quarantine. Marriage during these forty days forfeits the dower. This right was enforced by writ of Quarantina habenda. See 1 Steph. Com.2. A quantity of land containing forty perches, Leg. Hen. I., c. 16.3. A regulation by which communication with persons, ships, or goods arriving from places infected with the plague, or other contagious disease, or liable thereto, is interdicted for a certain period. The term is derived from the Italian quaranta, forty; it being supposed, that if no infectious disease break out within forty days or six weeks, no furth...

Dissignare

Dissignare, to break open a seal....

Peace, Breach of the

Peace, Breach of the, a violation of that quiet, peace, and security which is guaranteed by the laws for the personal comfort of the subjects of this kingdom. An ordinary subject of the Crown must act as a peace-officer to arrest an offender if a felony is committed, or a bad wound given in his presence; and an ordinary subject may arrest another who is on the point of committing murder, and may break and enter a house to do so; and may arrest a lunatic about to do a mischief, and may arrest one against whom an indictment has been found; or may arrest one to put a stop to a breach of the peace committed in his presence.The power of justices of the peace to adjudge a person to enter into recognizance and find sureties to keep the peace or be of good behaviour towards any other person on his complaint is regulated by s. 25 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'justices.'...

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