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Case, action on the. The action on the case lay where a party sued for damages for any wrong or cause of complaint (such as negligence, or breach of contract not under seal) to which covenant or trespass did not apply. Statutory sanction was obtained for this form of action under the Statute of Westminster 2 (13 Edw. 1, c. 24), which regulated and limited the increasing practice of framing new writs by officers of the Crown and empowered the Clerks in Chancery to frame new writs in consimili casu with writs then in existence, see Pollock on Torts and Law Quarterly Review, Vol. 52, p. 68. Under the statutory sanction many new writs which were analogous to the writ of trespass, or in consimili casu with that action, were invented and issued under the appellation of 'trespass on the case' (brevia 'de transgressione super casum') as being founded on the particular circumstances of the case thus requiring a remedy, and to distinguish them from the old writ of trespass; and the injuries them...
Sky Sign
Sky Sign. This expression is defined in s. 91 (3) of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, as follows:-'Sky sign' meansAny word, letter, model, sign, device, or representa-tion in the nature of an advertisement, announce-ment, or direction supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard, framework, or other support wholly or in part upon, over, or above any house, building or structure which, or any part of which, sky sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street or public way, and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard, framework, or other support.The expression 'sky sign' shall also include:Any balloon, parachute, or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purposes of any advertisement or announcement on, over, or above any house, building, structure, or erection of any kind, or on or over any street or public way;But shall not include:(a) Any flagstaff, pole, vane, or weathercock unless adapted or used wholly or ...
Hack
A frame or grating of various kinds as a frame for drying bricks fish or cheese a rack for feeding cattle a grating in a mill race etc...
Gallows
A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top also a like frame for suspending anything...
Framework
The work of framing or the completed work the frame or constructional part of anything as the framework of society...
frameshift
of pertaining to or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order frame to be correctly translated into protein in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene...
Eyeglass
A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision usually used in the plural referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame and worn resting on the bridge of the nose to improve the vision A single eyeglass in a frame is called a monocle...
Buckle
A device usually of metal consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches used for fastening things together as parts of dress or harness by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue...
Hogframe
A trussed frame extending fore and aft usually above deck and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness Used chiefly in American river and lake steamers Called also hogging frame and hogback...
Hut
Hut, 'hut' means any building, which is constructed principally of wood, bamboo, mud, leaves, grass or thatch and includes any temporary structure of whatever size or any small building of whatever material made. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(24)]The expression 'hut' cannot be restricted only to huts or cottages intended to be lived in. It will also take in any shed, hut or other crude or third class construction consisting of an enclosure made of mud or by poles supporting a tin or abestos roof that can be put to use for any purpose - residential or non-residential, in the same manner as any other first class construction. The kaichalai is a structure which falls within the purview of the definition. Surya Kumar Govindji v. Krishnammal, (1990) 4 SCC 343 (349). [T.N. Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960 (18 of 1960), s. 2(2)]Means any building, no material portion of which above the plinth level is constructed of masonry or of squared timber framing or of...
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