Canker Fly - Law Dictionary Search Results

Home Dictionary Name: canker fly

Canker bit

Eaten out by canker or as by canker...

Cankered

Affected with canker as a cankered mouth...

Canker

To affect as a canker to eat away to corrode to consume...

Canker blossom

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does...

Fly for it. On a criminal trial in former times it was usual after the verdict, even if not guilty, to inquire also: 'Did he fly for it ?' Forfeiture of goods followed a conviction upon such inquiry. This practice, after having been long discontinued, was generally abolished by the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 5. There is a saying, Fatetur facinus qui judicium fugit (3 Inst. 14)-'He who flies from justice confesses his guilt.'...

flying squad

flying squad : a usually small standby group of people ready to move or act quickly ;esp : a police unit formed to respond quickly in an emergency called also flying squadron ...

Bull fly

Any large fly troublesome to cattle as the gadflies and breeze flies...

black fly

In the United States a small venomous two winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests called also buffalo gnat The larvaelig are aquatic It sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals...

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