Cushion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Pillion
A panel or cushion saddle the under pad or cushion of saddle esp a pad or cushion put on behind a mans saddle on which a woman may ride...
Ladys cushion
An herb growing in dense tufts the thrift Armeria vulgaris...
Hovercraft
Hovercraft, means a vehicle which is designed to be supported when in motion wholly or partly by air expelled from the vehicle to form a cushion of which the boundaries include the ground, water or other surface beneath the vehicle. (English) Hovercraft Act, 1968, s. 4(1) [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 421, p. 250]....
Divan
Divan [an Arabic or Turkish word], a council-room, a state-chamber, a raised bench or cushion....
Charities, or Public Trusts
Charities, or Public Trusts. One of the earliest fruits of the Emperor Constantine's zeal, or pretended zeal, for Christianity, was a permission to his subjects to bequeath their property to the Church. This permission was soon abused to so great a degree as to induce the Emperor Valentinian to enact to Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related to spiritual or temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments.Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that opinion, has judiciously remarked, that at an early period that ordinary had the power to apply a portion of every man's personal estate to charity; and when afterwards the statute compelled a distr...
VerbarSachet
A scent bag or perfume cushion to be laid among handkerchiefs garments etc to perfume them...
Roque
A form of croquet modified for greater accuracy of play The court has a wood border often faced with rubber used as a cushion in bank shots The balls are 314 in in diameter the cage center arches or wickets 338 in wide the other arches 312 in wide...
Bolster
A long pillow or cushion used to support the head of a person lying on a bed generally laid under the pillows...
magnetic levitation
The process of supporting an object such as a vehicle with a magnetic field so that it does not contact the object supporting it it is a method used for eliminating friction in moving vehicles and is used eg in high speed rail technology where a train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction...
Pincushion
A small cushion in which pins may be stuck for use...
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