Deface

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of to disfigure to injure spoil or mar by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of as to deface a monument to deface an edifice to deface writing to deface a note deed or bond to deface a record...

Defacement

The act of defacing or the condition of being defaced injury to the surface or exterior obliteration...

deface

deface de·faced de·fac·ing : to destroy or mar the face or surface of de·face·ment n de·fac·er n ...

Deface

Deface, to mar the face or appearance of; to spoil the form or beauty of; to disfigure blot out; make eligible; erase; obliterate; causal. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 477)...

Defacer

One who or that which defaces or disfigures...

Metals, dealers in old

Metals, dealers in old, defined as any person dealing in, buying, and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such Articles only, or together with second-hand goods or marine stores, and the term 'old metals' means the said Articles. See (English) Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of an offence against the Act, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. See also (English) Public Stores Act, 1875, ss. 9, 10, and 11 and Public Health Amendment Act,...

injure

injure in·jured in·jur·ing 1 : to interfere with or violate the legally protected interests of: as a : to harm the physical, emotional, or mental well-being of b : to cause (another) to suffer from damage to, deprivation of, or interference with property or a property interest c : to violate the constitutionally or otherwise legally protected rights of 2 : to mar or impair the soundness or appearance of (as a building) : deface ...

Disfigure

To mar the figure of to render less complete perfect or beautiful in appearance to deface to deform...

Mutilate

Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some essential part; to render imperfect.' Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Vol. 27A - 'Mutilate' means something less than total destruction...... 'To mutilate' in the sense in which it is generally used by law writers and judges, means to render imperfect...... 'mutilate'.......means to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect erroneously defined word as applied to articles such as books and manuscripts, rather than defining it as applied to the human body as meaning to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body', the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. X, 'Mutilate - To render (a thing, especially a record, book, etc.) imperfect by cutting off or destroying a part. 'Mutilated of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed wanting some portion essential to com...

vandal

vandal [Vandal, member of a Germanic tribe who sacked Rome in A.D. 455] : a person who willfully destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public ...

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