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Garth

Garth [same as girth, fr. gyrdan, A.-s., to surround, to enclose], an enclosure about a house, church, etc.; a close; a dam or wear; a place formed at the

purpresture

purpresture [Anglo-French, alteration of Old French porpresure, from porprendre to seize, occupy, enclose, from por- for + prendre to take, from Latin prehendere] : wrongful appropriation of land subject to the

Dangerous place

the notice and hereinafter in this s. referred to as the 'prescribed period,' to repair, remove, protect, or enclose the same so as to prevent any danger therefrom: (2) If, after service of the notice on the

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fence

stolen goods b : a place where stolen goods are bought vt fenced fenc·ing 1 a : to enclose with a fence b : to keep in or out with a fence 2 : to sell (stolen

bound

s of the law] past and past part of bind vt : to form the boundary of or enclose [property ed on the north by a stone wall] adj : placed under a legal or moral restraint

Appropriare communiam

Appropriare communiam, to discommon and enclose any parcel of land which was before open common, Paroch. Antiq. 336.

Arrentation

Arrentation [fr. arrendar, Span.], licensing the owner of lands in a forest to enclose them with a low hedge and small ditch according to the assize of the forest, under a yearly

Bar

lawyer, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44. Means the railing in a court room that enclose the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the

Claud

Claud [Brit.], a ditch: claudere, to enclose, or turn open fields into inclosures, Paroch. Antiq. 236.

Common gambling house

the house enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. Explana-tion. The wore 'house' includes a tent and all enclosed space', State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana, AIR 1968 SC 825: (1968) 2 SCR 387. [Hyderabad Gambling

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