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Abstract of title
Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...
Launch
To throw as a lance or dart to hurl to let fly...
Jaculate
To throw or cast as a dart to throw out to emit...
Pheon
A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge...
Indart
To pierce as with a dart...
egg and anchor
same as egg and dart...
hummingbird
any bird of the family Trochilidaelig of which over one hundred genera are known including about four hundred species They are found only in America and are most abundant in the tropics They are mostly of very small size with long slender bills adapted to sucking nectar from flowers and are noted for the very brilliant iridescent colors of their plumage and their peculiar habit of hovering about flowers while vibrating their wings very rapidly with a humming noise the wings are specialized for hovering flight but they can also dart forward and fly quite rapidly They feed both upon the nectar of flowers and upon small insects The common humming bird or ruby throat of the Eastern United States is Trochilus colubris Several other species are found in the Western United States See Calliope and Ruby throat...
Bolt
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult esp a short stout blunt headed arrow a quarrel an arrow or that which resembles an arrow a dart...
Dart
A pointed missile weapon intended to be thrown by the hand a short lance a javelin hence any sharp pointed missile weapon as an arrow...
Dartingly
Like a dart rapidly...
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