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Hylobate

Any species of the genus Hylobates a gibbon or long armed ape See Gibbon...

Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates of which many species and varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia They are tailless and without cheek pouches and have very long arms adapted for climbing...

Hoolock

A small black gibbon Hylobates hoolock found in the mountains of Assam...

Long armed

Having long arms as the long armed ape or gibbon...

VerbarSiamang

A gibbon Hylobates syndactylus native of Sumatra It has the second and third toes partially united by a web...

Architect

Architect, 'architect' means a person whose name is for the time being entered in the register. [Architects Act (20 of 1972), s. 2(a)]A person who is skilled in the study of architecture, or more generally a person who prepares designs or plans of a building and supervises its erection. The plans of an architect cease to be his property as soon as he has been paid for his work upon them, Gibbon v. Pease, 1905 (1) KB 810. As to the liability of an architect for negligence, see Columbus Co. v. Clowes, (1903) 1 KB 244, and Chambers v. Goldthorpe, 1901 (1) KB 624; with regard to an architect's certificate, see the last-cited case and Eaglesham v. McMaster, 1920 (2) KB 169, also Hudson on Building Contracts, 6th ed. 'Architectural works of art,' as defined by the Act, are protected by the Copyright Act, 1911, see s. 35. The Architects (Regulation) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 33), provides for the Registration of Architects....

Hilary Sittings

Hilary Sittings. These take the place, since the Judicature Act, of Hilary Term, beginning on the 11th of January, and terminating on the Wednesday before Easter; see R.S.C. Ord. LXIII., r. 1. It was so called from Hilary, Biship of Poictiers, in France, a great champion of the Catholic faith against the Arians in the fourth century (see Gibbon, Dec. and Fall, c. xxi.). By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 26 (now obsolete), 'the division of the legal year into terms was abolished, so far as relates to the administration of justice.' See SITTINGS; TERMS.In England, a term of court beginning on January, 11 of each year and ending on Wednesday before Easter, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 735....

Koran, or Alcoran

Koran, or Alcoran, the Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws. Consult Gibbon's Dec. and Fall, ch 1....

Saladinetenth

Saladinetenth, a tax imposed in England and France, in 1188, by Pope Innocent III., to raise a fund for the crusade undertaken by Richard I. of England and Philip Augustus of France against Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, then going to besiege Jerusalem. By this tax every person who did not enter himself a crusader was obliged to pay a tenth of his yearly revenue and of the value of all his movables, except his wearing apparel, books, and arms. The Carthusians, Bernardines, and some other religious persons were exempt. Gibbon remarks that when the necessity for this tax no longer existed, the Church still clung to it as too lucrative to be abandoned, and thus arose the tithing of ecclesiastical benefices for the Pope or other sovereigns; and see the preamble to 23 Hen. 8, c. 20, wherein it is recited that the court of Rome exacted great sums of money under the title of annates or first-fruits, which were first suffered to be taken within the realm 'for thonelye defence of Cristen people ayen...

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