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A crucible or melting pot a cruset...
Crucible
A vessel or melting pot composed of some very refractory substance as clay graphite platinum and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat as metals ores etc...
Crucible steel
Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel wrought iron and other ingredients and fluxes...
Cruset
A goldsmiths crucible or melting pot...
Lute
To close or seal with lute as to lute on the cover of a crucible to lute a joint...
Melting pot
A vessel in which anything is melted a crucible...
Confusion, property by
Confusion, property by. Where goods of two persons are so intermixed that the several portions can no longer be distinguished; if the intermixture be by consent, it is supposed that the proprietors have an interest in common, in proportion to their respective shares; but if one wilfully intermix his money, corn, or hay, with that of another man, without his approbation or knowledge, or cast gold in like manner into another's melting-pot or crucible, our law allows no remedy in such a case, but gives the entire property without any account to him whose original dominion or property is invaded, and endeavoured to be rendered uncertain without his consent, 2 Bl. Com. 405. See also Vin. Abr. Justification (B) and Instit. of Justin. 1. Ii. tit. 1, ss. 27-34.As to the position where a person pays money held by him in a fiduciary character into his own banking account, see Re Hallett'' Estate, (1879) 13 Ch D 696; Sinclair v. Brougham, 1914 AC 398.By the (English) Solicitors Act, 1933 (23 & 24...
Fixtures
Fixtures. Things of an accessory character which are not something which is part of the original struc-ture, Boswell v. Crucible Steel Co., (1925) 1 KB 119, annexed to houses or lands, which become, immediately on annexation, part of the realty itself, i.e., governed by the same law which applies to the land, in conformity with the maxim quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit. The application of this legal principle, however, is not uniform, as may be thus shown:(1) Between landlord and tenant. If the chattels be not let into the soil, they are not fixtures at all, and may be removed at will, like any other species of personal property. When the chattel is connected with the free-hold, by being let into the earth, or by being cemented or otherwise united to some erection attached to the ground, the question arises-when may the tenant remove such fixtures?The general rule as to annexations made by a tenant during the continuance of his term is the following-Whenever he has affixed anything...
Brasque
A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal coal or coke with clay molasses tar or other suitable substance It is used for lining hearths crucibles etc Called also steep...
Graphite
Native carbon in hexagonal crystals also foliated or granular massive of black color and metallic luster and so soft as to leave a trace on paper It is used for pencils improperly called lead pencils for crucibles and as a lubricator etc Often called plumbago or black lead...
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