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The detective service of a government In the United States in time of peace the bureau of secret service is under the treasury department and in time of war it aids the war department in securing information concerning the movements of the enemy...
Sideroscope
An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles...
Equipment
Equipment, 'equipment', in relation to a ship, includes boats, tackle, pumps, apparel, furniture, life saving appliances of every description, spars, masts, rigging and sails, fog signals, lights, shapes and signals of distress, medicines and medical and surgical stores and appliances, charts, radio installations, appliances for preventing, detecting or extinguishing fires, buckets, compasses, axes, lanterns, loading and discharging gears and appliances of all kinds and all other stores or articles belonging to or to be used in connection with or necessary for the navigation and safety of the ship. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, (44 of 1958), s. 3(11)]The articles or implements used for a specific pur-pose or activity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
Re-development areas
Re-development areas. By ss. 34 et seq. of the (English) Housing Act, 1936, a local authority may acquire an area of land by agreement or compulsorily for houses for the working classes if after an inspection for the purposes of detecting overcrowding under s. 1 of the Act or otherwise the authority is satisfied that the area contains fifty or more working class houses, of which at least one-third are overcrowded or unfit for human habitation, and that the industrial and social conditions of the district are such that the area should be used for working-class houses and that the area should be re-developed as a whole for their accommodation. The authority must in those conditions prepare a re-development plan by reference to a map to be submitted to the Minister of Health for approval, and the Minister must hold a public inquiry if there is any objection, before giving or withholding or modifying the plan; in any other case approval may be given, qualified or withheld at the Minister''...
Melanoscope
An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light so that objects of other colors as green leaves appear black when seen through it It is used for viewing colored flames to detect the presence of potassium lithium etc by the red light which they emit...
Methanometer
An instrument resembling a eudiometer to detect the presence and amount of methane as in coal mines...
counter subversion
the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities...
magnetic mine
A marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that detects the nearness of magnetic material as the steel hull of a ship A magnetic counter mine may allow the passagw of several ships before detonating...
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