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Internal combustion

the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used

Dangerous business

Dangerous business, means the business of the manufacture of matches or of other substances liable to sudden explosion, inflammation or ignition or of turpentine, naphtha, varnish, tar, resin or Brunswick black or any other manufacture dangerous

Dynamite

Dynamite. The storage and carriage of dynamite is regulated by the Explosives Act, 1875. The use of it in public fisheries was prohibited by the Fisheries Dynamite Act, 1877, extended

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Fireworks

firework, but these have now been repealed, and the law relating to this subject amended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (amended by the Explosives Act, 1923). Any person throwing, casting, or firing any fireworks in or

Trout

gaff or tailer may, however, be used as an auxiliary to angling with a rod and line. No explosive or noxious material must be used with intent to take or destroy fish in any waters (s. 9).

Petroleum

See also London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1912, Part II.; London Building Act, 1930, s. 99; and EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS; MOTOR SPIRIT; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Petroleum.'

House, Houses

'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills. Malicious injuries to houses by tenants, or by means of explosive substances, are punishable by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), ss. 9 and 13.

Firearms

penal. A weapon that expels a projected (such as ballets or pallets) by combustion of gunpowder or other explosive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. For the purposes of the (English) Fire Arms Act, 1920 (10 & 11

Dangerous goods

goods, Act as to the carriage and deposit of, 29 & 30 Vict. c. 39, repealed by the Explosives Act, 1875. See EXPLOSIVE SUBSTANCES; Bamfield v. Goole Transport Co., (1910) 2 KB 94; and Dominion Natural Gas

County Councils

transferred from the free-holders of each county), the licensing of theatres, and the supervision of the trade in explosive substances (which are transferred from the justices of the peace out of session), and the maintenance of county

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