Fourth Degree

fourth degree : a grade given to less serious forms of crimes [manslaughter in the fourth degree] ...

degree 1 : a step in a direct line of descent or in the line of ascent to a common ancestor 2 a : a measure of the seriousness of a crime see also fifth degree, first degree, fourth degree, second degree, third degree NOTE: Crimes are rated by degrees for the purpose of imposing more severe punishments for more serious crimes. b : a measure of care ;also : a measure of negligence esp. in connection with bailments see also care, negligence ...

Conchoid

A curve of the fourth degree first made use of by the Greek geometer Nicomedes who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube...

cyclide

A surface of the fourth degree having certain special relations to spherical surfaces The tore or anchor ring is one of the cyclides...

VerbarLimaccedilon

A curve of the fourth degree invented by Pascal Its polar equation is r a cos theta b...

Quartic

Of the fourth degree...

Frank-marriage

Frank-marriage [in libero maritagio, Lat.], a species of entailed estates, now grown out of use, but still capable of subsisting. When tenements are given by one to another, together with a wife, who is a daughter or cousin of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate in estates tail has been abolished by L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1, and see s. 130, ibid. for the words of limitation necessary to create an equitable interest in tail. For the word frank-marriage, ex vi termini, both creates and limits an inheritance, not only supplying words of descent, but also terms of procreation. The donees are liable to no service except fealty, and a reserved rent would be void until the fourth degree of consanguinity be past between the issues of the donor and donee, when they were capable by the law of the church of inter...

Barrister

Barrister, is the name of a degree, also denotes a person who practises that profession. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 351, p. 271.Barrister, is a lawyer who argues cases before a British Court; especially one who is allowed to argue before a British High Court, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 45....

Quantic

A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables and called quadric cubic quartic etc according as it is of the second third fourth fifth or a higher degree These are further called binary ternary quaternary etc according as they contain two three four or more variables thus the quantic unr is a binary cubic...

intrusion

intrusion 1 a : the entry at common law of a stranger after a particular estate of freehold is determined before the person who holds it in remainder or reversion has taken possession b : the act of wrongfully entering upon, seizing, or taking possession of the property of another 2 : a trespassing on or encroachment upon something (as a right) [the Fourth Amendment demands that the showing of justification match the degree of "Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41 (1968)"] ...

Fourth Degree - Law Dictionary Search Results