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Home Dictionary Name: dunDun
Dun, a mountain or high open place. The names of places ending in dun or don were either built on hills, or near them in open places....
Hoddy
See Dun crow under Dun a...
Dun
A mound or small hill...
Dunbird
The pochard called also dunair and dunker or dun curre...
Dunnish
Inclined to a dun color...
favel
Yellow fallow dun...
Scotist
A follower of Joannes Duns Scotus the Franciscan scholastic d 1308 who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists or followers of Thomas Aquinas the Dominican scholastic...
Betting
Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...
Bum-Bailiff
Bum-Bailiff, a person employed to dun one for a debt; the bailiff employed to arrest for debt. See BOUND-BAILIFFS....
Likely
Likely, means no more than 'may well', Dunning v. United Liverpool Hospital' Board of Governors, (1973) 1 WLR 586.Means 'a real prospect of success, Bonnard v. Perryman, (1891) 2 Ch 269.Likely, the world 'likely' in clause (b) of s. 299 conveys the sense of probable as distinguished from a mere possibility. The word 'bodily injury ........................ sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death' mean that death will be the 'most probable' result of the injury, having regard to the ordinary course of nature, Ruli Ram v. State of Haryana, AIR 2002 SC 3360 (3364): (2002) 7 SCC 691. See also Abdul Waheed Khan v. State of Andhra Pradesh, (2002) 7 SCC 175: AIR 2002 SC 2961. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 300 thirdly and 299)See also Chako v. State of Kerala, AIR 2004 SC 2688: (2004) 12 SCC 269; State of Uttar Pradesh v. Virendra Prasad, (2004) 9 SCC 37....
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