Cloud Nine - Law Dictionary Search Results
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a state of extreme or perfect happiness used especially in the phrase on cloud nine...
Cloud capped
Having clouds resting on the top or head reaching to the clouds as cloud capped mountains...
Possession is nine points of the law
Possession is nine points of the law. This adage is not to be taken to be true to the full extent, so as to mean that the person in possession can only be ousted by one whose title is nine times better than his; but it places in a stronger light the legal truth that every claimant must succeed by the strength of his own title and not by the weakness of his antagonists. For instance, if the claimant be able to show a descent from the grantor of the estate, perfect except in one link of the chain, and the man in possession be a perfect stranger, the latter shall keep the estate; and so, also, if the claimant be a natural son of the last owner and adopted by him, and declared by him to be designed as his heir, yet if he dies without making a will in his favour, a stranger in possession has a better title. In Beddall v. Maitland, (1881) 17 Ch D p. 183, Sir Edward Fry, speaking of the statute 5 Rich. 2, stat. 1, c. 8, which makes a forcible entry an indictable offence, says: 'This statute c...
Cloud ceiling
Cloud ceiling, means the vertical distance from the elevation of the aerodrome to the lowest part of any cloud visible from the aerodrome which is sufficient to obscure more than half the sky so visible, Air Navigation Order 1989, Art. 106(1) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1441, p. 709....
cloud on the title
cloud on the title any condition which affects the clear title to real property. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
cloud on title
cloud on title :an interest (as a lien) in real property that if valid impairs the owner's title compare quiet ...
Cloud built
Built of or in the clouds airy unsubstantial imaginary...
Cloud burst
A sudden copious rainfall as if the whole cloud had been precipitated at once...
Cloud compeller
Cloud gatherer an epithet applied to Zeus...
Magellanic cloud
Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulaelig near the south celestial pole resembling thin white clouds each of which is a galaxy2 smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy They are not visible from the northern hemisphere and are named after Ferdinand Magellan who saw them in his expedition which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe...
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