Buckle - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: buckleBuckle
A device usually of metal consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches used for fastening things together as parts of dress or harness by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue...
Buckling
Wavy curling as hair...
Chape
The piece by which an object is attached to something as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap...
Fastening
Anything that binds and makes fast as a lock catch bolt bar buckle etc...
Fermillet
A buckle or clasp...
VerbarFibula
A brooch clasp or buckle...
Garter
Garter. The Order of the Garter, constituted by King Edward III. About 1348, has since June 28, 1831, consisted of the Sovereign and twenty-five Knight Companions, such lineal descendants of King George I. as may have been elected, and of Sovereigns and extra Knights who have been admitted by special statutes. The Prince of Wales is a constituent part of the original institution, The Habit and Ensigns of the Order comprise (inter alia) (1) a garter of dark blue velvet edged with gold bearing the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense, in gold letters with buckle and pendant of gold richly chased. It is worn on the left leg, below the knee; (2) a collar of gold; (3) the Lesser George or Badge; and (4) a Star of eight points of silver. At death the Badge and Star are delivered up to His Majesty by the knight's nearest male relative, the Collar and Garter being returned to the Central Chancery. The Chappel of St. George, Windsor Castle, is the Chapel of the Order, Debrett's Peerage....
Parliamentary executive
Parliamentary executive, in the Indian Constitution, we have the same system of Parliamentary executive as in England and the Council of Ministers consisting, as it does, of the members of the legislature is, like the British Cabinet, 'a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part,' Ram Jawaya v. State of Punjab, AIR 1955 SC 549 (556). [Constitution of India, Article 203]...
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