Day And Night - Law Dictionary Search Results
Shine
To emit rays of light to give light to beam with steady radiance to exhibit brightness or splendor as the sun shines by day the moon shines by night...
Sennight
The space of seven nights and days a week...
Nightfall
The close of the day the arrival of the night the period at and just after dusk...
Lychnobite
One who labors at night and sleeps in the day...
daytime
The time during which there is daylight as distinguished from the night same as day 1 as during the daytime...
Cutworm
A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage corn etc usually at the ground Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds During the day they conceal themselves in the earth The common cutworms are the larvaelig of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths...
Daylight
The light of day as opposed to the darkness of night the light of the sun as opposed to that of the moon or to artificial light...
Day
The time of light or interval between one night and the next the time between sunrise and sunset or from dawn to darkness hence the light sunshine also called daytime...
Night
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon or the time from sunset to sunrise esp the time between dusk and dawn when there is no light of the sun but only moonlight starlight or artificial light...
Market overt
Market overt, an open or public market. Contracts of sale which transfer the property as against a real owner though not the seller are binding, if made according to the following rules.--(1)The sale must be in a place that is open, so that anyone who passes may see it, and that is proper for the sale of such goods; (2) it must be an actual sale for a valuable consideration; (3) the buyer must not know that the seller has a wrongful possession of the goods sold; (4) the sale must no tbe fradulent between two to bar a third person of his right; (5) there must be a sale and a contract by persons able to contract; (6) the contract must be originally and wholly in the market overt; (7) toll ought to be paid where required by statute; (8) the sale ought not to be in the night, though, if the sale be made in the night, it may bind the parties, The Case of Market Overt, 5 Rep 83; and see Hargreave v. Spink, (1892) 1 QB 25; and Ardath Tobacco Co. Ltd. v. Ocker, 1930 TLR 177, distinguishing a s...
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