Contour - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: contourContorniate
A species of medal or medallion of bronze having a deep furrow on the contour or edge supposed to have been struck in the days of Constantine and his successors...
Contour
The outline of a figure or body or the line or lines representing such an outline the line that bounds periphery...
Cymograph
An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles moldings etc...
Feather
One of the peculiar dermal appendages of several kinds belonging to birds as contour feathers quills and down...
VerbarHypoptilum
An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds called also aftershaft See Illust of Feather...
Outline
The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure the exterior line or edge contour...
Profile
An outline or contour as the profile of an apple...
Amendment
Amendment, a correction of any errors in the writ or pleadings in actions, suits, or prosecutions. The power of allowing amendments has been much extended by modern statutes and rules, but it will not be exercised to the prejudice of a party to the proceeding; apart from this, it is in general a mere matter of costs.1. Amendment of proceedings in the Supreme Court. By R. S. C. Ord. XXVIII., r. 1, the Court or a judge may, at any stage of the proceedings, allow either party to alter or amend his indorsement or pleadings, in such manner and on such terms as may be just, and all such amendments shall be made as may be necessary for the purpose of determining the real questions in controversy between the parties. This is the general principle. The remaining rules of the Order prescribe the practice in detail; they allow the plaintiff to amend his statement of claim once without leave, and the defendant similarly to amend a counterclaim or set-off. But a defence cannot be amended without le...
Countors, or contors
Countors, or contors [fr. Contours, Fr.], serjeants-at-law, whom a man retains to defend his cause and speak for him incourt, for their fees, See Co. Litt. 17 a....
Legally unfree
Legally unfree, denoted prisoners or undertrials languishing in jails. '...a prison context affects the colour, content and contour of the freedoms of the legally unfree' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675, para 54]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
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