Compasses - Law Dictionary Search Results
Pelorus
An instrument similar to a mariners compass but without magnetic needles and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken esp such as cannot
Treason
or 'Statute of Treasons' (25 Edw. 3, st. 5, c. 2), as follows:- (1) When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king (a queen regnant is within these words), of our
Treason felony
with s. 30 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'If any person shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass to depose the King, or to levy war against him, within any part of the United Kingdom, in
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Equipment
and medical and surgical stores and appliances, charts, radio installations, appliances for preventing, detecting or extinguishing fires, buckets, compasses, axes, lanterns, loading and discharging gears and appliances of all kinds and all other stores or articles belonging
Diaphemetric
Relating to the measurement of the tactile sensibility of parts as diaphemetric compasses
Describe
draw a plan of to delineate to trace or mark out as to describe a circle by the compasses a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle
Outcompass
To exceed the compass or limits of
Outkeeper
An attachment to a surveyors compass for keeping tally in chaining
Palinurus
instrument for obtaining directly without calculation the true bearing of the sun and thence the variation of the compass
Pantochronometer
An instrument combining a compass sundial and universal time dial
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