Clocks - Law Dictionary Search Results
Horology
measuring time or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time as clocks watches dials etc
Horologiographer
A maker of clocks watches or dials
Horologer
A maker or vender of clocks and watches one skilled in horology
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mainspring
principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer
Regularly
to say, one made at regular times or intervals. The regularity contemplated may not be a punctuality, of clock-like precision and exactitude, but it must reasonably conform with substantial proximity to the sequence of times or intervals
Noting
Noting, when a promissory note or bill of exchange has been dishonoured by non-acceptance or non-payment, the holder may cause such dishonour to be noted by a notary public upon the instrument, or upon a paper...
Gaming or gambling
Gaming or gambling, the playing any game of chance, as cards, dice, etc., for money, or money's worth. The still unrepealed 33 Hen. 8, c. 9, prohibits the keeping of any common house for dice, cards,...
Fixtures
or ceiling; fixed tables, furnances and coppers, mash-tubs, and fixed water-tubs; coffee and malt-mills; cupboards fixed with hold-fasts; clock cases, iron ovens, and the like; provided the separation occasion but little or no damage. The fixtures must
Day
Day [fr. dies, Lat.; tag, Germ.], in its largest sense the time of a whole apparent revolution of the sun round the earth, but , in its popular acceptation, that part of the twenty-four hours when...
Curfeu, curfew
Curfeu, curfew [fr. Couvrir, to cover, and feu, Fr., fire], a bell which rang at eight O'clock in the evening, in the time of William the Conquer or, where upon everyone was obliged by law to...
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