Decoy Duck - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: decoy duckDecoy duck
A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy hence a person employed to lure others into danger...
Decoy
To lead into danger by artifice to lure into a net or snare to entrap to insnare to allure to entice as to decoy troops into an ambush to decoy ducks into a net...
Decoy
Decoy [probably fr. kooy, Dut., a cage], a place made for catching wild water-fowl. As to the rights of an owner of such a place, see Carrington v. Taylor, (1809) 11 East 571; 11 Mod 74, though the decision in this case is overruled by Allen v. Flood, 1898AC 1.The word 'decoy' means to entire, tempt, lure of allure. There can be no such thing as 'forcibly decoy is a person from his place of residence. The word implies enticement or luring by means of some fraud, trick, or temptation, but excludes the idea of force. (Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.)...
Decoyer
One who decoys another...
Decoy man
A man employed in decoying wild fowl...
Muscovy duck
A duck Cairina moschata larger than the common duck often raised in poultry yards Called also musk duck It is native of tropical America from Mexico to Southern Brazil...
Buffel duck
A small duck Charitonetta albeola the spirit duck or butterball The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers and thus appears large Called also bufflehead...
Duck billed platypus
same as Duck Mole under Duck...
Sea duck
Any one of numerous species of ducks which frequent the seacoasts and feed mainly on fishes and mollusks The scoters eiders old squaw and ruddy duck are examples They may be distinguished by the lobate hind toe...
Lame Duck Session
Lame Duck Session, means sitting of an elected Assembly which continues in office during the period between election and the inauguration of a succession, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 734.Is an ineffective, helpless or disable session, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Jess Stein and Laurence Urdang, p. 803.In India this type of session was held during 1957 to 1962 when the elections to the new Lok Sabha had been held but new Lok Sabha had not been duly constituted, to pass the vote on account, these were known as 'Lame Duck' Session, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn. 2001, p. 424...
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