Celluloid - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: celluloidCinematograph
Cinematograph, more properly cinematograph. A contrivance for projecting in rapid succession on a screen a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give the effect of motion (The Concise Oxford Dict.). The (English) Cinematograph Act, 1909, provides that an exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other similar appartus for the purpose of which inflammable films are used shall not be given unless the regulations made by the Home Secretary are complied with, or elsewhere that in premises licensed under the Act (s. 1). The Act does not apply, however, to exhibitions in private houses to which the public are not admitted [s. 7 (4)]. The exhibition of films by dealers or their agents to intending purchasers or hirers does not amount to an exhibition within the meaning of the Act, Attorney-General v. Vitagraph Co., 1915 (1) Ch 206. Sunday exhibitions, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 1 The Celluloid and (Engl...
Celluloid
A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color but variously colored to imitate coral tortoise shell amber malachite etc It is used in the manufacture of jewelry and many small articles as combs brushes collars and cuffs originally called xylonite...
ping pong
An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats or battledores and a very light hollow celluloid ball on a large table divided across the middle by a net Also called table tennis...
Ping pong ball
the small hollow celluloid ball used for the game of ping pong...
Wrong
Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged ha...
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