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Cope chisel

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove...


Coped

Clad in a cope...


Cope

Cope, a custom or tribute due to the Crown or lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire; also a hill, the roof and covering of a house; a church vestment, by Canon 24 to be worn in cathedral churches by those that administer the Holy Communion....


Firmer chisel

A chisel thin in proportion to its width It has a tang to enter the handle instead of a socket for receiving it...


Set chisel

A kind of chisel or punch variously shaped with a broad flat end used for stripping off rivet heads etc...


Copestone

A stone for coping See Coping...


Semicope

A short cope or an inferier kind of cope...


Access

Access, approach, or the means of approaching. The presumption of a child's legitimacy is rebutted, if it be shown by strong, distinct, satisfactory, and conclusive evidence, see Atchley v. Sprigg, (1864) 33 LJ Ch 345, that the husband-whether before or after marriage-had not access to his wife within such a period of time before the birth, as admits of his having been the father. 'If a husband have access, although others, at the same time, are carrying on a criminal intimacy with his wife, a child born under such circumstances is still legitimate': per Alderson, J., in Cope v. Cope, (1833) 5 C&P 604. Neither husband nor wife is admissible as a witness to prove non-access, Goodright v. Moss, (1777) 2 Cowp p. 594. See also Poulett Peerage Case, 1903 AC 395, and Russell v. Russell, 1924 AC 687 see PATERNITY.An owner of land adjoining a highway has a right of access to it where the land adjoins for any kind of traffic required for the reasonable enjoyment of his property, Lyon v. Fishmon...


Cope

A covering for the head...


Coping

The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall often with sloping edges to carry off water sometimes called capping...


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