Flash Boiler - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flash boilerFlash boiler
A variety of water tube boiler used chiefly in steam automobiles consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated...
Boiler Explosions Act
Boiler Explosions Act, 1882 (English) (45 & 46Vict. c. 22), whereby detailed notice of an explosion from any boiler, i.e. (s. 3), 'any closed vessel used for generating steam, or for heating water, or for heating other liquids, or into which steam is admitted for heating, steaming, boiling, or other similar purposes,' must be sent within 24 hours by the 'owner or user,' or their agent, to the Board of Trade, who have power to order an inquiry with respect to the explosion. Boilers used exclusively for domestic purposes, and boilers used in the service of his Majesty or on board certificated steamships, were exempted from the Act, and so were some boiler explosions in mines, but an amending 'Boiler Explosions Act, 1890,' repeals these exemptions, except those for Crown and domestic boilers. A pipe may be a 'boiler' within this Act, R. v. Commissioners, (1891) 1 QB 703; but a boiler used for heating business premises in within the exception, Smith v. Muller, (1894) 1 QB 192....
Flash
To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light as the lighting flashes vividly the powder flashed...
Flash-point
Flash-point, of any petroleum means the lowest temperature at which it yields a vapour which will give a momentary flash when ignited, determined in accordance with the provisions of Chapter II and the rules made thereunder. [Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934), s. 2 (c)]...
Lancashire boiler
A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end...
Boiler
Boiler, means any closed vessel exceeding 22075 liter in capacity which is used expressly for generating steam under pressure and includes any mounting or other fitting attached to such vessel, which is wholly or partly under pressure when steam is shut off. [Indian Boilers Act, 1923 (5 of 1923), s. 2 (b)]...
Flash point
the lowest temperature at which the vapors given off by a volatile liquid exposed to air will burst into flame when approached by a flame Also called flashing point...
boiler room
boiler room : a room equipped with telephones used for making high-pressure usually fraudulent sales pitches ...
Accident
Accident, anything that happens, an unforeseen or unexpected event, a chance, a mishap, an extraordinary incident; something not expected. It is also a head of equitable jurisdiction, which was concurrent with that of the Courts of Law.Means an unlook for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed, Fenton v. Thorley & Co. Ltd., 1903 AC 443: 72 LJKP 787: 89 LT 314 (HL).The meaning to be attached to the word accident,' in relation to equitable relief, is some unforeseen and undersigned event, productive of disadvantage and not due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the person seeking relief. The cases in which equity may give relief under certain conditions are (1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives.In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE.The popular and ordinary sense of the word 'accident' means the mishap or an untowa...
Owner
Owner, for the purposes of the Public Health Act, 1936, s. 343, replacing s. 4 of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act (5 Edw. 7, c. ccix.), 'the person for the time being receiving the rack-rent of the premises in connection with which the word is used, whether on his own account or as agent or trustee, or who would so receive the same if the same were let at a rack-rent' (see that title), and Kensington Corporation v. Allen, (1926) 1 KB 576.In relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking, and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be deemed to be the owner of the undertaking. [Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951), s. 3 (f)]In relation to an undertaking, means an individual Hindu undi...
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