Frost Bitten - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: frost bittenFrosted
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost ornamented with frosting also frost bitten as a frosted cake frosted donuts...
Frost bitten
Nipped withered or injured by frost or freezing...
flea bitten
Bitten by a flea as a flea bitten face...
hard bitten
not given to sentimentality or gentleness of people as a hard bitten character...
Frost free
not accumulating frost used especially of refrigerators with an automatic defrost cycle such that the freezer compartment remains free of ice without need for a manual defrosting...
Frost signal
A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico...
Prerogative of mercy
Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath that, though not false, was fatuous: ibid. p. 661. The power of pardoning offences is stated by Blackstone to be one of the great advantages of monarchy in general above every other form of government, and which cannot subsist in democracies. Its utility and necessity are defended by him on all those principles which do honour to human nature: see 4 Bl. Com. c. 31, p. 397. In early times, again, there were fewer offences that did not admit of being pardoned. In appeals (i.e., private accusations of felony) which were not the s...
Bitten
p p of Bite...
Fly bitten
Marked by or as if by the bite of flies...
hard boiled
same as hard bitten...
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