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Home Dictionary Name: diamondizeRegent diamond
A famous diamond of fine quality which weighs about 137 carats and is among the state jewels of France It is so called from the Duke of Orleans Regent of France to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras whence also called the Pitt diamond who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701...
Diamonded
Having figures like a diamond or lozenge...
Diamondize
To set with diamonds to adorn to enrich...
Diamond shaped
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus...
Pitt diamond
See regent diamond...
Legacy
Legacy [fr. legatum, Lat.]. A legacy is a gift of personalty by will, and, arising as it does from the mere bounty of the testator, it is postponed to the claims of creditors. There are four kinds of legacies:-(1) General, when it does not amount to a bequest of any particular thing or money, as distinguished from all others of the same kind; as if a testator give A. 50l. or a diamond ring, not referring to any particular diamond ring as distinguished from others. (2) Specific, when it is a bequest of a particular thing, or sum of money, or debt, as distinguished from all others of the same kind, as if a testator give B. 'my diamond ring.' (3) Demonstrative, when it is in its nature a general legacy, but there is a particular fund pointed out to satisfy it, as if a testator bequeath 1,000l. out of his Reduced Bank Three per Cents. And (4) Cumulative, or substitutional, when a testator by the same testamentary instrument, or by different testamentary instruments, has bequeathed more tha...
Bort
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work...
Carbon
An elementary substance not metallic in its nature which is present in all organic compounds Atomic weight 1197 Symbol C it is combustible and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal and enters largely into mineral coals In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond the hardest of known substances occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron etc Another modification is graphite or blacklead and in this it is soft and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide commonly called carbonic acid or carbonic oxide according to the proportions of the oxygen when united with hydrogen it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons Compare Diamond and Graphite...
Rose cut
Cut flat on the reverse and with a convex face formed of triangular facets in rows said of diamonds and other precious stones See Rose diamond under Rose Cf Brilliant n...
Founder of the institution
Founder of the institution, the expression 'founder of the institution' used in s. 13(3) (a) means that the person concerned should be the originator of the institution, or at least one of the persons responsible for the coming into existence of the institution. Director of Income Tax v. Bharat Diamond Bourse, (2003) 1 SCC 741 (757). [Income-tax Act, 1961, s. 13(3) (a)]Founder's shares, in English company law, shares issued to the founders of or vendors to, a public company as a part of the consideration for the business, or concession etc., taken over, and not forming a part of, the ordinary capital, (Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 37, p. 37). See also Director of Income Tax v. Bharat Diamond Bourse, (2003) 1 SCC 741....
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