Gale - Law Dictionary Search Results
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A strong current of air a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane The most violent gales are called tempests...
Loom gale
A gentle gale of wind...
Armorum appellatione, non solum scuta et gladii et gale', sed et fustes et lapides continentur
Armorum appellatione, non solum scuta et gladii et gale', sed et fustes et lapides continentur. Co. Litt. 162.-(Under the name of arms are included, not only shields and swords and helmets, but also clubs and stones.)...
Gale
Gale [fr. gavel, Sax., a rent or duty], a periodical payment of rent, Spelm. Gloss. Voce 'gabellum.' The term is also used as meaning the right granted by the Crown to mine or to quarry in parts of the Forest of Dean. [See the Forest of Dean (Mines) Act, 1838]Rent paid by a free miner the galled for the right to mine a plot of land; A licence to mine a plot of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 687....
Water and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
Blizzard
A gale of piercingly cold wind usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow a furious blast...
Let up
Abatement also cessation as it blew a gale for three days without any let up...
VerbarMyrica
A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees usually with aromatic foliage It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle the sweet gale and the North American sweet fern so called...
Northeaster
A storm strong wind or gale coming from the northeast...
Northwester
A storm or gale from the northwest a strong northwest wind...
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