Cold Short - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cold shortCold short
Brittle when cold that is below a red heat as cold short iron...
cold blood
cold blood : a state of mind marked by premeditation and deliberateness usually used in the phrase in cold blood [killed the victim in cold blood] compare cool state of blood, heat of passion cold-blood·ed [kōld-blə-dəd] adj ...
ice cold
as cold as ice extremely cold...
Shortness
The quality or state of being short want of reach or extension brevity deficiency as the shortness of a journey the shortness of the days in winter the shortness of an essay the shortness of the memory a shortness of provisions shortness of breath...
Short lived
Not living or lasting long being of short continuance as a short lived race of beings short lived pleasure short lived passion...
Entering short
Entering short. When bills not due are paid into a bank by a customer, it is the custom of some bankers not to carry the amount of the bills directly to his credit, but to 'enter them short,' as it is called, i.e., to note down the receipt of the bills, their amounts, and the times when they become due in a previous column of the page, and the amounts when received are carried forward into the usual cash column. See Giles v. Perkins, (1807) 9 East 13. Sometimes, instead of entering such bills short, bankers credit the customer directly with the amount of the bills as cash, charging interest on any advances they may make on their account, and allow him at once to draw upon them to that amount. If the banker becomes bankrupt, the property in bills entered short, and not credited to the customer unless by way of advance, does not pass to his trustee, but the customer is entitled to them if they remain in his hands, or to their proceeds, if received, subject to any lien the banker may have...
Short Titles
Short Titles, of Acts of Parliament. First introduced for convenience of citation in 1845 by the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and since then gradually more and more used in the case of particular Acts. General Short Titles Acts were also passed in 1892 and 1896, that of 1896 giving short titles to 2,076 Acts, of which 840 had had short titles given to them by the Act of 1892, which the Act of 1896 repeals. See ACT OF PARLIAMENT....
cold site
cold site ...
Cold blooded
Having cold blood said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them...
Coldly
In a cold manner without warmth animation or feeling with indifference calmly...
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