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Home Dictionary Name: clear sightedClear sighted
Seeing with clearness acutely perceptive discerning as clear sighted reason...
Sighted
Having sight or seeing in a particular manner used in composition as long sighted short sighted quick sighted sharp sighted and the like...
Sightful
Easily or clearly seen distinctly visible perspicuous...
After sight
After sight, the expression 'after sight' means, in a promissory note, after presentment for sight, and, in a bill of exchange, after acceptance, or noting for non-acceptance, or protest for non-acceptance. (Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, s. 21)...
sight
sight : payable on presentation see also sight draft at draft ...
Eagle sighted
Farsighted and strong sighted sharp sighted...
Bill of sight
Bill of sight, When a merchant is ignorant of the real quantities or qualities of any goods assigned to him, so that he is unable to make a perfect entry of them, he must acquaint the collector or comptroller of the circumstance; and he is authorized, upon the importer or his agent making oath that he cannot, for want of full information, make a perfect entry, to receive an entry by bill of sight for the packages by the best description which can be given, and to grant warrant that the same may be landed and examined by the importer in presence of the officers; and within three days after any goods shall have been so landed, the importer shall make a perfect entry, and shall either pay the duties, or shall duly warehouse the same.In default of perfect entry within three days, such goods are to be taken to the King's warehouse; and if the importer shall not, within one month, make perfect entry and pay the duties thereon, or on such parts as can be entered for home use, together with ch...
Clearing
Clearing, a among London bankers a method adopted by them for exchanging the drafts of each other's houses, and settling the difference. At fixed hours, each day, a clerk from each banker attends at the clearing-house, bringing all the drafts on the other bankers which have been paid into his house during the day, and delivers to each of the other clerks the obligations he has against his house, receiving from each the obligations due from his own. Balances are struck at the end of the day, the clerk to the Clearing House making up the accounts between each bank. The balances are not paid to or received from the other bankers as formerly, but are settled with the Clearing House, which keeps an account itself at the Bank of England. There is also a Country Clearing House. Consult McLeod on Banking; Grant's Law of Banking, 6th Edn. P. 66.Maritime law. The departure of a ship from port after complying with customs, health laws and other local regulations, Black's Law Dictionary,7th Edn., ...
sight draft
sight draft see draft ...
Breech sight
A device attached to the breech of a firearm to guide the eye in conjunction with the front sight in taking aim...
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