Contrivement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Shifty
Full of or ready with shifts fertile in expedients or contrivance
Chaff-cutting machines
of accidents, if worked by any motive power other than manual labour, to have their feeding mouths so contrived as to prevent the hand of the person feeding them from being drawn between the rollers to the
Prepense
Prepense, forethought, preconceived, contrived beforehand. See MALICE.
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Coat armour
knights, who went to the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of identifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armour from one another, Bl. Com. 306'
Compassing
Compassing [fr. compasser, Fr., to encircle, con, with, and passus, a step, Lat.], imagining or contriving. To compass or imagine the death of the king, of his queen, or of their eldest son and
Duplicating equipment
Duplicating equipment, means any mechanical contrivance or device used or intended to be used for making copies of any work. [Copyright Act, 1957 (14
Fraud
also LACHES. Constructive fraud. Such acts or contracts as, though not originating in any actual evil design or contrivance to perpetrate fraud or injury upon others, yet, by their tendency to deceive or mislead, or to violate
Jury-packing
Jury-packing, means the act or an instance of contriving to have a jury composed of persons who are predisposed toward one side or the other. Also termed
Letters-patent, or letters overt
of patent-right. A 'patent-right' is a privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of any new contrivance in manufactures, that he alone shall be entitled, during a limited period, to make Articles according to his
Marriage brokage
Marriage brokage, a consideration paid for contriving a marriage, and illegal as contrary to public policy, so that money paid under it may be recovered
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