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Free-board, or freebord

Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be ofthe nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept free, open and unbuilt upon. Cowel (Law Dict.) has the following: 'Free-board, Francbordus, in some places they claim as a Free-bord, more or less ground beyond or without the fence. In Mon. Angl. 2 par. Fol. 241, it is said to contain two foot and a half.' He then quotes the passage from Dugdale, but inaccurately, the correct reading being as follows: Et totum boscum quod vocatur Brendewode, cum frankbordo duorum pedum et dimidium, per circuitum illius bosci, etc.; see Dugd. Mon., Edn. Caley Ellis & Bandinel, vol. vi. P. 375. Du Cange simply says, 'Francbordus A...

Free trade throughout the territory of India

Free trade throughout the territory of India, Article 301 Constitution of India mandates free trade, commerce and intercourse throughout the territory of India. Interstate trade has, therefore, to be free from trade barriers. The mobility of goods throughout the territory of India has to be free. Free trade throughout the territory of India would be one with no tariffs and no restrictions or disadvantages of any kind of importing or exporting from the different States. Free trade means complete freedom of interstate trade without any restrictions on the movement of goods between the States, State of Bihar v. Harihar Prasad, AIR 1989 SC 1119 (1125): (1989) 2 SCC 192: (1989) 1 SCR 796. [Constitution of India Art. 301]...

Free-bench

Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a continuance of his estate.The term free-bench is equally applicable to the estate which, by the custom of some manors, a husband takes in his wife's copyhold lands after her death, and anciently it was indiscriminately applied to that and to the widow's dower, but now the estate of the husband is called his curtesy, while the term free-bench is confined to the widow.Since free-bench is only claimable by special custom, the estate which a widow is to take, both as to its quantity, quality, and duration, must be such as the custom prescribes. It is generally a third for her life, as at Common Law, but it is sometimes a fourth part only, and sometimes but a portion of the rent. In many manors the wife takes the whole for her life, in others she takes the inheritance.Frequently the c...

free 1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen [representatives…shall be determined by adding to the whole number of persons "U.S. Constitution art. I"] b : enjoying civil and political liberty [a people] c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination [these united colonies are, and of right ought to be and independent States "Declaration of Independence"] d : not subject to the control or domination of another 2 : made or done as a matter of choice and right : not compelled or restricted [no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof "U.S. Constitution amend. I"] [a and voluntary confession] 3 : relieved from or lacking a burden (as a lien or other encumbrance on title) [a buyer in ordinary course of business…takes of a security interest created by his seller "Uniform Commercial Code"] 4 : not bound, confined, or detained by force [ on bail] 5 a : having no trade restrictions b : not ...

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free 1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen [representatives…shall be determined by adding to the whole number of persons "U.S. Constitution art. I"] b : enjoying civil and political liberty [a people] c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination [these united colonies are, and of right ought to be and independent States "Declaration of Independence"] d : not subject to the control or domination of another 2 : made or done as a matter of choice and right : not compelled or restricted [no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the exercise thereof "U.S. Constitution amend. I"] [a and voluntary confession] 3 : relieved from or lacking a burden (as a lien or other encumbrance on title) [a buyer in ordinary course of business…takes of a security interest created by his seller "Uniform Commercial Code"] 4 : not bound, confined, or detained by force [ on bail] 5 a : having no trade restrictions b : not ...

Free days

Free days, under the heading 'Free Days' it is provided that all goods will be allowed storage in locks free of rent for 5 days. It is further provided that in computing the number of free days Sundays and holidays referred to in by-law 118 as well as any other days on which Customs Duty may not be assessed or received, will be omitted in the case of all goods liable to duty under s. 20 of the Sea Customs Act, Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay v. Indian Goods Supplying Co., AIR 1977 SC 1622 (1626). [Bombay Port Trust Act, (6 of 1869), ss. 43, 43A and 43B]...

Free Trade Zone

Free Trade Zone, means a the Bandla Free Trade Zone and the Santa Cruz Electronic Export Processing Zone and includes any other Free Trade Zone which the Central Government may by, notification in the Official gazette, specify for the purpose of this section. [Income-tax Act, 1961, s. 10A(iv)]A duty free area within a country to promote commerce, esp. transshipment and processing, without entering into the country's market, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 676....

free speech

free speech 1 : speech that is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [setting off an alarm bell is not free speech "A. M. Dershowitz"] 2 : freedom of speech [an unconstitutional restraint on free speech "National Law Journal"] ...

drug-free zone

drug-free zone : a statutorily designated area or place (as a public park or beach or a school bus) within which the distribution of or possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance is an aggravated felony ;esp : such an area including and extending outward usually 1000 feet from the real property of a public or private school [it is irrelevant whether a person is aware that he or she is carrying on the prohibited drug activity in a drug-free zone "State v. Silva-Baltazar, 886 P.2d 138 (1994)"] ...

free alongside ship

free alongside ship : with delivery at the side of the ship free of charges and the buyer's liability then beginning ...

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