Dropped - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: droppeddrop cloth
a sheet of material used to cover objects or surfaces while painting a ceiling or wall of a house so as to protect objects from being marred by drops of paint splashed inadvertantly in the painting process Originally such drop cloths were made of cloth but more recently paper or plastic have also commonly been used...
Dropping
The action of causing to drop or of letting drop falling...
Ruperts drop
A kind of glass drop with a long tail made by dropping melted glass into water It is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken so called from Prince Rupert nephew of Charles I by whom they were first brought to England Called also Ruperts ball and glass tear...
Drop
Drop: When the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i.e., the rule is neither discharged nor made absolute, and is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, it has been usual to make on order in one way, the junior judge withdrawing his judgment; see e.g., Bunch v. Great Western Railway Company, (1886) 17 QBD 217....
Drop
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass a liquid globule a minim hence also the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid a small quantity as a drop of water...
drop forge
a device for making large forgings in which a heavy hammer drops onto the metalwork to be forged pressing it into a form or anvil underneath or between dies...
drop off
a noticeable decline in performance as a drop off in attendance...
Droppingly
In drops...
knockout drops
Drops of any drug used to a person to fall asleep or become unconscious or stupefied for the purpose of robbery etc they are usually mixed into a drink so that the person consuming it does so unknowingly One compound used for this purpose is chloral hydrate...
Ring-dropping
Ring-dropping, a trick variously practised. One mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from Patch's case, 2 East, P.C. 678:-The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretends to find a ring wrapt in paper, appearing to be a jeweller's receipt for a 'rich brilliant diamond ring.' They offer to leave the ring with the victim if he will deposit some money and his watch as a security. He lays his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny. See further 2 Russ. On Cr....
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