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Home Dictionary Name: fire beetleFire beetle
A very brilliantly luminous beetle Pyrophorus noctilucus one of the elaters found in Central and South America called also cucujo The name is also applied to other species See Firefly...
Cucujo
The fire beetle of Mexico and the West Indies...
Colorado beetle
A yellowish beetle Doryphora decemlineata with ten longitudinal black dorsal stripes It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado and is very destructive to the potato plant called also potato beetle and potato bug See Potato beetle...
Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Flea beetle
A small beetle of the family Halticidaelig of many species They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas The turnip flea beetle Phyllotreta vittata and that of the grapevine Graptodera chalybea are common injurious species...
Fire prevention and fire safety measures
Fire prevention and fire safety measures, s. 2(g) 'fire prevention and fire safety measures' means such measures as are necessary in accordance with the building bye-laws for the prevention, control and fighting of fire and for ensuring the safety of life and property in case of fire. [Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986 (56 of 1986), s. 2(g)]...
Fire brigade
Fire brigade. The (English) Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1855 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 90), intrusts to the London County Council, which has superseded the Metropolitan Board of Works, the duty of extinguishing fires in the metropolis. On the occasion of a fire the chief officer of the fire brigade may take any measures that appear expedient for the protection of life and property by s. 12 of the Act; and in other districts by s. 89 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53). Motors used for fire-brigade purposes are exempt from the duty on licences for motor-cars....
Accidental fire
Accidental fire. By the (English) Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, no action shall be prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, stable, barn, or other building, or on whose estate any fire shall accidentally begin; but nothing herein contained shall defeat any contract or agreement made between landlord and tenant. The statute will not protect tenants from the consequences of fires caused by their negligence.Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91....
Bark beetle
A small beetle of many species family Scolytidaelig which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees often doing great damage...
Goliath beetle
Any species of Goliathus a genus of very large and handsome African beetles...
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