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Home Dictionary Name: continentalContinental pronunciation
A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values as in German and Italian the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman the modified form the English pronunciation The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian...
Continental mixture
Continental mixture, there is no mechanical or scientific process by which the continental mixture is made. The mixture comes into existence automatically by piling up manganese ore des-patched from various States one after the other, Manganese Ore (India) Ltd. v. Regional Asstt. C.S.T, (1976) 4 SCC 124 (129): AIR 1976 SC 410. [Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, ss. 3(a), 4(2)(b) and a]...
civil law
civil law often cap C&L 1 : Roman law esp. as set forth in the Code of Justinian 2 : the body of law developed from Roman law and used in Louisiana, in continental Europe, and in many other countries outside of the English-speaking world including esp. those that were colonized by countries of continental Europe see also the Judicial System in the back matter compare common law NOTE: Although Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. whose law is based entirely on civil law, remnants of civil law remain in other states (as Texas and California) in which countries of continental Europe had a strong influence. 3 : the law established by a nation or state for its own jurisdiction 4 : the law that applies to private rights esp. as opposed to the law that applies to criminal matters compare criminal law ...
Indian customs water
Indian customs water, means the waters extending into the sea upto the limit of contiguous zone of India under s. 5 of the Territorial Waters Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and includes any bay, gulf, harbour, creek or tidal river. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (28)]Indian customs waters, Indian Customs waters' covers not only, Indian coastal waters but also much more because the customs waters extends 24 nautical miles from the coastal baseline which follows that Indian coastal waters are within the Indian Customs Waters, Hawabi Sayed Arif Sayed Hanif v. L. Hrringliana, (1993) 1 SCC 163: AIR 1993 SC 810 (816). [Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, ss. 3(2) and 5]...
Continental
Of or pertaining to a continent...
Continental drift
the movements of continents relative to each other across the Earths surface see plate tectonics...
Continental drive
A transmission arrangement in which the longitudinal crank shaft drives the rear wheels through a clutch change speed gear countershaft and two parallel side chains in order...
Continental glacier
A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreading outward from a central neacuteveacute or region of accumulation...
Continental system
The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree which Napoleon I issued from Berlin Nov 21 1806 declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade and British subjects property and merchandise subject to capture and excluding British ships from all parts of Europe under French dominion The retaliatory measures of England were followed by the Milan decree issued by Napoleon from Milan Dec 17 1807 imposing further restrictions and declaring every ship going to or from a port of England or her colonies to be lawful prize...
Countess
The wife of an earl in the British peerage or of a count in the Continental nobility also a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right See the Note under Count...
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