Continental Drift - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: continental driftContinental drift
the movements of continents relative to each other across the Earths surface see plate tectonics...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Continental 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]...
Drifts of the forest
Drifts of the forest [agitatio animalium in foresta, Lat.], a view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc., that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the beasts are, and whether they are commonable. These drifts are made at certain times in the year by the officers of the forest; when all cattle are driven into some pound or place enclosed for the before-mentioned purposes, and also to discover whether any cattle of strangers be there, which ought not to common, Manwood, p. 2, c. xv....
Drift-land, Drofland, or dryfland
Drift-land, Drofland, or dryfland, a yearly rent paid by some tenants for driving cattle through a manor to fairs or markets, Cowel, Law Dict....
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 ...
Driftpin
A smooth drift See Drift n 9...
Drifty
Full of drifts tending to form drifts as snow and the like...
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]...
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