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Circuit breaker

Circuit breaker, means a device, capable of making and breaking the circuit under all conditions, and unless otherwise specified, so designed as to break the current automatically under

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jury may think proper to assess, and this injury is called trespass quare clausum fregit, or trespass for breaking a man's close.

Conservators of the truce and safe conducts

Conservators of the truce and safe conducts, officers appointed to hear and determine questions relating to the breaking of the king's truce and safe conducts upon the main sea, out of the liberties of the Cinque

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Curtilage

Curtilage [fr. Cour, Fr., court; and leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the...

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...

Contract, breach of, inducement of

Geo. 5, c. 22), is not actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment. [(English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906, s. 3]

Constructive total loss

all the circumstances: in the case of a wreck the owner is entitled to take into account the break-up value, as well as the estimated cost of repairs, in reckoning whether there has been a constructive total

Broker

Broker [fr. broceur, Fr., a person who breaks into small pieces], (1) an agent employed to make bargains and contracts between other persons in matters of

Breach of peace

the public, which are either actual violations of the peace, or constructive violations, by tending to make others break it. See PEACE. The criminal offense of creating a public disturbance or engaging in disorderly conduct, particularly by

Arma moluta

Arma moluta (arma emolita), sharp weapons that cut, in contradistinction to such as are blunt, which only break or bruise, Fleta, lib. 1, c. 31, para 6

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