Flooding - Law Dictionary Search Results
Deposit
or even knowledge of the depositor; as lumber, etc., left upon another's land by the subsidence of a flood. The civilians again divide deposits into simple deposits, made by one or more persons having a common interest,
Deposit necessary
Deposit necessary, is one which is made under peculiar stress of circumstances, such as fire, flood, shipwreck, civil riot, or other unforeseen disaster, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1807, p. 836.
Nilometer
An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood
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House of Lords
of Lords may obtain the opinions of the judges; for a recent instance of this, see Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. As to the trial of peers indicted for treason or felony by the House of
Malice
on Libel. An act lawful in itself is not converted by malice into an actionable wrong, Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. -means ill-will or spite towards a party and any indirect or improper motive in taking
Trade Union
latter Act regulates the membership of trade unions of civil servants. In the celebrated case of Allen v. Flood, 1898, AC 1, it was held by a majority of six to three in the House of Lords,
Postdiluvial
Being or happening after the flood in Noahs days
Effulgence
The state of being effulgent extreme brilliancy a flood of light great luster or brightness splendor
high water
achieved level of or pertaining to high water as the high water marks on the walls after a flood
Briny
brine or to the sea partaking of the nature of brine salt as a briny taste the briny flood
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