Chinese Red - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: chinese redChinese red
of a vivid red to reddish orange color...
Chinese
Chinese. The Australian colonies (see especially the Chinese Immigration Restriction Act, 1888, of New South Wales) have passed many Acts restricting Chinese immigration, and in Musgrove v. Chung Teeong Toy, 1891 AC 272, it was held by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council that a Chinese immigrant or other alien has no right enforceable by action to enter British territory...
Chinese walls
Chinese walls, an effective Chinese wall needs to be an established part of the organizational structure of the firm, not created ad hoc and dependent on the acceptance of evidence sworn for the purpose by members of staff engaged on the relevant work, Bolkiah v. KPMG [H.L.(E)], (1992) 2 WLR 215....
Chinese Exclusion Act
Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6 1882 then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5 1892 By act of April 29 1902 all existing legislation on the subject was reeumlnacted and continued and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States...
Red hot
Red with heat heated to redness as red hot iron red hot balls Hence figuratively excited violent as a red hot radical...
Red hand
Having hands red with blood in the very act as if with red or bloody hands said of a person taken in the act of homicide hence fresh from the commission of crime as he was taken red hand or red handed...
Red light
an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection Each set of lights typically has a colored red light and also green and amber lights the color of the light which is lighted at any one time changes automatically to control the flow of traffic through the intersection allowing flow from different directions in alternating succession Also called traffic light traffic signal or stop light When the red light is illuminated the signal means to stop green means to go and amber means to stop or procede through the intersection with caution In simple intersections of two roads a red light visible to traffic on one road will usually be accompanied by a green light visible to traffic on the intersecting road In some locations the lights may be set to be illuminated in other sequences or combinations a blinking red light is typically equivalent to a ldq...
red herring
red herring [red herring something that distracts attention from the main issue, diversion] : a preliminary prospectus (as for the sale of securities) that is not yet approved by the appropriate body (as the Securities and Exchange Commission) ...
Red letter
Of or pertaining to a red letter marked by red letters...
Redly
In a red manner with redness...
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