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Installation of machinery

Installation of machinery, when an engine is fixed in a vehicle it is within the meaning of the expression in cls. (vi) and (via),

Fixtures

of Elwes v. Maw, (1802) 3 East 38; 2 Sm. L.C., gives a tenant a property in any engine, machinery, fencing, or building for which he cannot get compensation, so that it is removable by a tenant

Nuisance

Edw. 7, c. 11), as to fires on agricultural land or to crops caused by sparks from an engine; if the power is permissive only, due care must be exercised not to infringe the rights of other

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Munitions of war

8. Cf. CONTRABAND. It includes the whole or any part of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar engine, arms and ammunition, torpedo, or mine intended or adopted for use in war, and any other article, material

Ballistic

pertaining to the ballista or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine

Railway Fires Act

Railway Fires Act. See ENGINE.

Sarkellus

Sarkellus, an unlawful net or engine for destroying fish.

Collapse

thing fall in together or be crushed in together as a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses

Change gear

of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant called also change speed gear

chainsaw

chain rotated about two pivot points by a power mechanism such as an electric motor or a gasoline engine

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