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Week
Week, in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Third Edition), the word 'week' has been described as meaning 'the cycle of seven days, recognized in the calendar of the Jews and thence adopted in the calendar of Christian, Moham-medan and various other peoples. A space of seven days, irrespective of the time from which it is reckoned. Seven days as a term for periodical payments (of wages, rent, or the like), or as a unit of reckoning for time of work or service'. In Webster's New World Dictionary (1962 Edition), the meaning of the word 'week' is given as 'a period of seven days, especially one beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday; the hours or days of work in a seven-day period'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary (Third Edition), it is stated that '(1) though a week usually means any consecutive seven days, it will sometimes be interpreted to mean the ordinary notion of a week reckoning from Sunday to Sunday and (2) probably, a week usually means seven clear days'. A 'week' a...
Burglary
Burglary [fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling-house of another in the night-time with intent to commit a felony therein. S. 25 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, provides that-Means the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) especially at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or larcency), the act of entering or remaining unlawfully (as after closing to the public) in a building with intent to commit a crime (as a felony). The crime of burglary was originally defined under the common law to protect people, since there were other laws, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 61.Burglary, is the common law offence of breaking and entering another's dwelling at night with the intent to commit a felony. The modern statutory offence of breaking and entering any building not just a dwelling and not only at night - with the intent to commit a felony....
Day
Day [fr. dies, Lat.; tag, Germ.], in its largest sense the time of a whole apparent revolution of the sun round the earth, but , in its popular acceptation, that part of the twenty-four hours when it is light, or the space of time between the rising and the setting of the sun. by the Roman Calendar the day commenced at midnight; and most European nations reckon in the same manner.In the space of a day all the twenty-four hours are usually reckoned. Therefore, in general, if I am bound to pay money on any certain day, I discharge the obligation if I pay it before twelve o'clock at night; after which the following day commences.If anything is to be done within a certain time, of, from, or after the doing or occurrence of something else, the day on which the first act or occurrence takes place is to be excluded from the computation, Williams v. Burgess, (1840) 12 A&E 635. In certain legislative and justiciary acts, e.g., the proceedings of the House of Lords as recorded in the Journals of...
Kakapo
A singular nocturnal parrot Strigops habroptilus native of New Zealand It lives in holes during the day but is active at night It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance It has large wings but can fly only a short distance Called also owl parrot night parrot and night kaka...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
Evening
The latter part and close of the day and the beginning of darkness or night properly the decline of the day or of the sun...
Noctidial
Comprising a night and a day as a noctidial day...
Damage feasant or faisant
Damage feasant or faisant (doing damage). If a stranger's beasts (including domestic fowls) are found on another person's land without his leave or license, and without the fault of the possessor of the close (which may happen from his not repairing his fences), and there doing damage by feeding, or otherwise, to the grass, corn, wood, etc., the person damaged may distrain and impound them, as well by night as in the day, lest the beasts escape before taken; but they cannot be sold for the damage done; nor is there any privilege from the distress. The distress may be made of things inanimate, see Ambergate, etc., Ry. Co. v. Midland Ry. Co., (1853) 23 LJ QB 17, where a locomotive engine was distrained damage feasant. By the (English) Pound-Breach Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 30), any person releasing, or attempting to release, cattle lawfully seized by way of such distress from the pound is, on conviction before two justices of the peace, liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l.; and by the (...
Levant et couchant
Levant et couchant [levantes et cubantes, Lat.], cattle that have been so long in the ground o another that they have lain down and risen to feed; supposed to be a day and a night, Termes de la Ley....
daybed
an armless couch a seat by day and a bed by night...
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