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Home Dictionary Name: grains Page: 3 Page 3 of about 211 results (0.002 seconds)Thirlage
Thirlage (obsol.), a servitude or tenure in Scotland, by which the occupier of certain lands was bound to carry his grain to a certain mill to be ground, for which he was bound to pay a portion of the flour or meal, varying from a thirtieth to a twelfth part, which was termed 'multitude.' This servitude was commuted for an annual payment in grain by 39 Geo. 3, c. 55. See Bell's Scots Law Dict....
Felsite
A finegrained rock flintlike in fracture consisting essentially of orthoclase feldspar with occasional grains of quartz...
Extine
The outer membrane of the grains of pollen of flowering plants...
Sand
Fine particles of stone esp of siliceous stone but not reduced to dust comminuted stone in the form of loose grains which are not coherent when wet...
Scruple
A weight of twenty grains the third part of a dram...
VerbarSicca
A seal a coining die used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors or the Indian rupee of 192 grains...
Carat
Carat, a weight equal to three and one-sixth grains; the measure of purity of gold, pure gold being 24 carats....
Conditions
Conditions, Conditions are nothing but qualifica-tion, restriction or limitation modifying or even destroying to a certain extent the right to carry on the business. The commodities in which the association can carry on the business of forward contract is an integral part of its business activity. They are the subject- matter or media for carrying on the business and specification of commodities in which business can be carried on is a condition sounding only in the realm of regulation and control of that business, Union of India v. Rajdhani Grains and Jaggery Exchange Ltd., (1975) 1 SCC 676: AIR 1975 SC 1218: (1975) Supp SCR 1....
Market
Market [anciently written mercat, fr. mercatus, Lat.], a public time and place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. It differs from the forum, or market of antiquity, which was a public market-place on one side only, the other sides being occupied by temples, theatres, etc.A market can only be set up by virtue of a royal grant, or by long and immemorial usage, which presupposes a grant.See FAIRS; and (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 167, the Public Health Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 6), and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 14); (English) Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1886 to 1926.As to disturbance of market, see Goldsmid v. Great Eastern Railway Co., (1884) 9 App Cas 927; A.G. v. Horner (No. 2), (1913) 2 Ch 140. In City of London Fruit Corporation v. Lyons, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1936 Ch 78, it was held that any member of the public has a right of access to a franchise market on payment of tolls and observance of bye-laws for the purpose of ...
Pennyweight
Pennyweight, twenty-four grains; see Weights and Measures Act,1878, Second Schedule, 'Weights.'...
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