Half Boot - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: half bootHalf boot
A boot with a short top covering only the ankle See Cocker and Congress boot under Congress...
Bootee
A half boot or short boot...
boot
boot [obsolete or dialect boot compensation, from Old English bōt advantage, compensation] : additional money or property received to make up the difference in an exchange of business or investment property that is of like kind but unequal in value NOTE: Under Internal Revenue Code section 1031, no tax liability results from an exchange solely of like-kind property used in a business or trade or held for investment. If the exchange includes boot, however, under section 1245 the boot will be treated as ordinary income. ...
blucher
A kind of half boot or high shoe with laces over the tongue named from the Prussian general Bluumlcher...
Booted
Wearing boots especially boots with long tops as for riding as a booted squire...
Brodekin
A buskin or half boot...
Booting, or Boting corn
Booting, or Boting corn [fr. boteor boot, Sax., compensation], rent corn, anciently so called....
Boots
A servant at a hotel or elsewhere who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes...
Half life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
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