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Douter

An extinguisher for candles

Discourage

To extinguish the courage of to dishearten to depress the spirits of to deprive of confidence to deject the opposite

CO2 extinguisher

a device for suppressing fire consisting of a steel cylinder containing compressed carbon dioxide which may be released by pressing on a handle The release of the gas is usually accomplished through a hose attached to...

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Copyhold

water, (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 12th Sched., s. 5. Notwithstanding enfranchisement copyholds were, until 1935, still subject until extinguishment to the manorial incidents: (1) Quit and Chief Rents; (2) Fines, Reliefs and Heriots; (3) Customary or reasonable

Tithe Rent-Charge

of land being let by the owner to a tenant, the remedy of distress by the tithe-owner was extinguished, and recovery through a receiver appointed by the county Court of the district was substituted for it, except

peremption

from Latin perimere to take away entirely, destroy, kill] in the civil law of Louisiana : the absolute extinguishment of a right that prevents the bringing of an action [a claim barred by ] ;also : the

Merger

It is the drowning of one estate in another, and differs from suspension, which is but a partial extinguishment for a time; while extinguishment, properly so termed, is the destruction of a collateral thing in the subject

Steward of manor

Enfranchised Land (Stewards' Fees) Regulations, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 3, as to fees payable to stewards upon extinguishment of manorial incidents and upon the compulsory production of assurance of former copyholds to him. Upon a vacancy

Instrument

document by which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created, transferred, modified, limited, extended, suspended, extinguished or recorded. [Notaries Act, 1952 (53 of 1952), s. 2 (b)] Includes every document by which any right

Valuable security

document which is, or purports to be, a document whereby any legal right is created, extended, transferred, restricted, extinguished or released, or whereby any person acknowledges that he lies under legal liability, or has not a certain

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