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Cashierer
One who rejects discards or dismisses as a cashierer of monarchs...
Cashiers check
A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds signed by the cashier...
Cashier
Cashier, a person entrusted with the monetary interest of an individual, a firm, or a public company; also, to deprive of office....
check
check 1 : something that limits or restrains see also checks and balances 2 : a written order signed by its maker directing a bank to pay a specified sum to a named person or to that person's order on demand see also negotiable instrument compare draft bank check : a check drawn by a bank on its deposits in another bank ca·shier's check : a check drawn by a bank on its own funds and signed by the cashier or another bank official certified check : a check certified to be good by the bank upon which it is drawn by the signature of usually the cashier or paying teller with the word certified or accepted across the face of the check NSF check [Not Sufficient Funds] : a check drawn on an account with insufficient funds from which to make payment ...
Banian
A Hindu trader merchant cashier or money changer...
Cafeteria
A restaurant or cafeacute at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter typically paying a cashier at the end of the counter and taking the food to tables to eat...
Cashier
One who has charge of money a cash keeper the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts moneys checks notes of a bank or a mercantile company...
Duel
Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth, long since disused.In modern times a duel is a combat with weapons between two persons upon some quarrel precedent, wherein, if one of them is killed, the other and the seconds are guilty of murder whether the seconds fight or not, Hawk. Pl. 47.Notwithstanding that this was the undoubted law, duels were by no means unfrequent in England up to about the middle of the nineteenth century, e.g., the Duke of Wellington exchanged shots without effect with Lord Winchelsea in 1829; Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton was killed by Lieutenant Hawkey in1845. For a full list of celebrated duels, see Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, tit. 'Duel.'It is a misdemeanour to challenge another to fight, or to provoke another to send a challenge, R. v. Phillips, (1805) 6 East 464; and fighting or promoting a duel renders an ...
Felo de se
Felo de se (a felon with respect to himself); one who feloniously commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard or other burial ground (without divine service) between the hours of nine and twelve at night. The (English) Interments (Felo de se) Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 19), repealed and re-enacted the above Act, omitting the provisions as to the hours of burial, and allowing, by permission of the ordinary, a religious service, the Prayer Book expressly forbidding the use of the Burial Service therein contained in the case of those who die 'laying violent hands on themselves,' Escheat or forfeiture for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness of mind a verdict of felo...
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