Casse Tecircte - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: casse tecircteCasse tecircte
A small war club esp of savages so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull...
Causeuse
A kind of sofa for two persons A tecircte agrave tecircte...
Bridgehead
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge and prevent the enemy from crossing a tecircte de pont...
Barnburner
A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York about the middle of the 19th century which was hostile to extension of slavery public debts corporate privileges etc and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848 opposed to Hunker...
Cass
To render useless or void to quash to annul to reject to send away...
Casse Paper
Broken paper the outside quires of a ream...
Fraction of a day
Fraction of a day, the law does not recognize, except in cass of necessity and for the purposes of justice, see Clarke v. Bradlaugh, (1881) 8 QBD 63; when, therefore, a thing's to be done upon a certain day, all that day is allowed to do it in, Gelmini v. Moriggia, (1913) 2 KB 552. An Act of Parliament becomes law as soon as the day on which it is passed commences, Tomlinson v. Bulock, (1879) 4 QBD 230, unless the commencement be expressly postponed; and every minor comes of age on the day proceeding the twenty-first anniversary of his birthday, and may act as of full age the first moment of that day....
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