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doohickey

Any object usually a tool or other device whose name is forgotten or not known...

Forgettable

Liable to be or that may be forgotten...

Oblivion

The act of forgetting or the state of being forgotten cessation of remembrance forgetfulness...

Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...

Firmware

Firmware, 'software kept in semi-permanent memory. Firmware is used in conjunction with hardware and software. It also shares the characteristics of both. Firmware is usually stored on PROMs (Programmable Read-Only Memory) or EPROMs (Electrical PROMs). Firmware contains software which is so constantly called upon by a computer or phone system that it is 'burned' into a chip, thereby becoming firmware. The computer program is written into the PROM electrically at higher-than-usual voltage, causing the bits to 'retain' the pattern as it is 'burned in'. Firmware is non-volatile. It will not be 'forgotten' when the power is shut off. Handheld calculators contain firmware with the instructions for doing their various mathematical operations. Firmware programs can be altered. An EPROM is typically erased using intense ultraviolet light', Newton's Telecom dictionary. C.C.E. v. Acer India Ltd., (2004) 8 SCC 173 (182)....

Piedpoudre, Court of

Piedpoudre, Court of [curia pedis pulverizati, Lat., so called either from the dusty feet of the suitors, or because justice is there done as speedily as dust can fall from the foot; or derived from pied puidreaux, Old Fr., a pedlar or petty chapman, such as resorts to fairs or markets], a Court of record incident to every fair and market, though fallen into disuse and now in a manner forgotten; of which the steward of him who owns, or has the toll of the market, is the judge; its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one; so that the injury must be done, complained of, heard and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer. The court had cognizance of all matters of contract that could possibly arise within the precinct of that fair or market, and the plaintiff must make oath that the cause of action arose there. A writ of error lay in the nature of a...

Reserve and provision

Reserve and provision, the expression 'reserve' has not been defined in the Act and therefore one would be inclined to resort to its ordinary natural meaning as given in the dictionary but it seems to us that the dictionary meaning, though useful in itself, may not be sufficient, for, the dictionaries do not make any distinction between the two concepts 'reserve' and 'provision' which giving their primary meanings, whereas in the context of the legislation with which we are concerned in the case a clear distinction between the two is implied. According to the dictionaries (both Oxford and Webster) the applicable primary meaning of the word 'reserve' is: 'to keep for future use or enjoyment; to set apart for some propose or end in view; to keep in store for future or special use; to keep in reserve', while 'provision' according to Webster means: 'something provided for future'. In other words according to the dictionary meanings both the words are more or less synonymous and connote the...

Verbal note

Verbal note, a memorandum or note, in diplomacy, not signed, sent when an affair has continued a long time without any reply, in order to avoid the appearance of an urgency which, perhaps, is not required; and, on the other hand, to guard against the supposition that it is forgotten, or that there is an intention of not prosecuting it any further....

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