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Home Dictionary Name: elativeel cheapo
cheap inexpensive and of inferior quality as an el cheapo cigar...
impanel
impanel or em·pan·el [im-, em-] vt -eled or: -elled -el·ing or: -el·ling : to form (a jury) esp. by summoning and selecting the members ;specif : to enroll (a list of selected jurors) in a court compare array im·pan·el·ment n ...
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was followed by a series of Acts, known collectively as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, which together established a system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary educatio...
centavo
a fractional monetary unit of several countries such as El Salvador St Thomas and Principe Brazil Argentina Bolivia Colombia Cuba the Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua Peru the Philippines and Portugal...
Elative
Raised lifted up a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative denoting a high or intense degree of a quality but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases...
El Dorado
A name given by the Spaniards in the 16th century to an imaginary country in the interior of South America reputed to abound in gold and precious stones...
Mayan
Designating or pertaining to an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz Chiapas Tabasco Campeche and Yucatan together with a part of Guatemala and a part of El Salvador See 2nd Maya...
Market overt
Market overt, an open or public market. Contracts of sale which transfer the property as against a real owner though not the seller are binding, if made according to the following rules.--(1)The sale must be in a place that is open, so that anyone who passes may see it, and that is proper for the sale of such goods; (2) it must be an actual sale for a valuable consideration; (3) the buyer must not know that the seller has a wrongful possession of the goods sold; (4) the sale must no tbe fradulent between two to bar a third person of his right; (5) there must be a sale and a contract by persons able to contract; (6) the contract must be originally and wholly in the market overt; (7) toll ought to be paid where required by statute; (8) the sale ought not to be in the night, though, if the sale be made in the night, it may bind the parties, The Case of Market Overt, 5 Rep 83; and see Hargreave v. Spink, (1892) 1 QB 25; and Ardath Tobacco Co. Ltd. v. Ocker, 1930 TLR 177, distinguishing a s...
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