Cd Wo

A recordable compact disk a compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read only...

certificate of deposit (cd)

certificate of deposit (cd) A bank document that evidences the existence of a time deposit that normally pays interest. Source: FindLaw ...

an electronic device containing a laser used to read or play back the data on a compact disk The term is usually used for the type of device used to play music recordings That used for data storgage n coputer applications is usually called a CD drive Called also CD player and informally CD...

Prerogative of mercy

Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath that, though not false, was fatuous: ibid. p. 661. The power of pardoning offences is stated by Blackstone to be one of the great advantages of monarchy in general above every other form of government, and which cannot subsist in democracies. Its utility and necessity are defended by him on all those principles which do honour to human nature: see 4 Bl. Com. c. 31, p. 397. In early times, again, there were fewer offences that did not admit of being pardoned. In appeals (i.e., private accusations of felony) which were not the s...

gift

gift 1 : an intentional and gratuitous transfer of real or personal property by a donor with legal capacity who actually or constructively delivers the property to the donee with the intent of giving up dominion over the property and investing it in the donee who accepts it ;broadly : a voluntary transfer of property without compensation see also delivery compare donation, sale class gift : a usually testamentary gift of a sum to a group of unspecified persons whose number and identity and share of the gift will be determined sometime in the future (as at the death of the donor) com·plet·ed gift : a gift in which the dominion and control of the property is placed beyond the donor's reach gift cau·sa mor·tis [-kȯ-zə-mȯr-tis, -ka-sÄ -mȯr-tēs] pl: gifts causa mortis : a gift of esp. personal property made in contemplation of impending death that is delivered with the intent that the gift take effect only in the event of the donor's...

Bissextile

Leap year every fourth year in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year 365 d 5 h 48 m 46 s above 365 days But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year which is 11 m 14 s more than the excess of the real year Hence it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400 while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400...

occupancy

occupancy pl: -cies 1 : the fact or condition of holding, possessing, or residing in or on something [ of the premises] 2 : the act or fact of taking or having possession (as of abandoned property) to acquire ownership 3 : the fact or condition of being occupied [ by more than 400 persons is unlawful] 4 : the use to which a property is put [designed for industrial ] ...

Cadmium

A comparatively rare element related to zinc and occurring in some zinc ores It is a white metal both ductile and malleable Symbol Cd Atomic weight 1118 It was discovered by Stromeyer in 1817 who named it from its association with zinc or zinc ore...

Cd

the chemical suymbol for cadmium a metallic element of atomic number 48...

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