Fifteenth - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Fifteenths, a tribute or imposition of money anciently laid generally upon cities, boroughs, etc., throughout the whole realm; it amounted to a fifteenth of that which each city or town was valued at, or of every man's personal estate, Cam. Brit. 171....
Adolescent
Adolescent, means a person who has completed his fourteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. [Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948), s. 2 (a)]--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year. Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961 (27 of 1961), s. 2(a).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year. S. 2(b), Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948).--means a person who has completed his fifteenth year but has not completed his eighteenth year.S. 2(a), Plantations Labour Act, 1951 (69 of 1951)....
Quinsteme, or quinzime
Quinsteme, or quinzime, fifteenths, temporary aids issuing out of personal property, and granted to the King by Parliament, 1 Bl. Com. 309. Also the fifteenth day after a festival, 13 Edw. 1....
Baselard
A short sword or dagger worn in the fifteenth century...
Condottiere
A military adventurer of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries who sold his services and those of his followers to any party in any contest...
Disdiapason
An interval of two octaves or a fifteenth called also bisdiapason Compare diapason1...
Fifteenth
Next in order after the fourteenth the ordinal of fifteen...
Ides
The fifteenth day of March May July and October and the thirteenth day of the other months...
O
O the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet derives its form value and name from the Greek O through the Latin The letter came into the Greek from the Phoelignician which possibly derived it ultimately from the Egyptian Etymologically the letter o is most closely related to a e and u as in E bone AS bamacrn E stone AS stamacrn E broke AS brecan to break E bore AS beran to bear E dove AS dumacrfe E toft tuft tone tune number F nombre...
Omicron
Lit the little or short O o the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet...
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