Deface - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: defaceDeface
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 ...
Defacer
One who or that which defaces or disfigures...
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)...
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 ...
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 ...
vandalism
vandalism : the willful or malicious destruction or defacement of property [insurance covering property damage from and malicious mischief] ...
defaced
having the external appearance impaired usually deliberately...
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