Change Gear - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: change gearChange gear
A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant called also change speed gear...
Clash gear
A change speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise...
Lay shaft
A secondary shaft as in a sliding change gear for an automobile a cam shaft operated by a two to one gear in an internal combustion engine It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine as in some marine engines a shaft driven by a small auxiliary engine for independently operating the valves of the main engine to insure uniform motion...
Bevel gear
A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet...
gear up
To prepare for an event or activity as to gear up for the election campaign...
Hookes gearing
Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle...
Irreversible steering gear
A steering gear esp for an automobile not affected by the road wheels as when they strike an obstacle side ways but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever...
landing gear
The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground also the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures Landing gear may be fixed rigidly in place or retractable when in flight...
Changed Circumstances
Changed Circumstances, what the words ' 'changed circumstances' mean is the change in circumstances due to transfer of power in August 1947 and the coming into force of the Constitution in January 1950, and no more. Therefore when Art. 314 speaks of 'rights as similar thereto as changed circumstance may permit', it only means that a member of the former Secretary of State's Services would have rights similar to his pre-existing rights as the changed circumstances resulting from constitutional changes may allow, R.P. Kapur v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 787 (791): (1964) 5 SCR 431. [Constitution of India, Art. 314]...
Ringing the changes
Ringing the changes, a trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test it by biting, and returning a shilling, said it was a bad one. The buyer gave him a second, which he treated like the first, and returned with the same words, and so with a third shilling. The shillings he returned being bad, this was an uttering of false money, 1 Russ. On Cr., 5th Edn. 231.fraud consisting in offender's using a large banknote to pay for a small purchase; waiting for shopkeeper to put change on counter and then, by a series of maneuvers involving change of mind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1327....
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