Half And Half - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: half and halfHalf-brother, half-sister
Half-brother, half-sister, a brother or sister by the father's or mother's side only. Marriage with a half-sister of a deceased wife or half-brother of a deceased husband has been legalized; see Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Acts, 1907-1931...
Half cracked
Half demented half witted...
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...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
Full blood and half blood
Full blood and half blood, two persons are said to be related to each of the by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor or but by different wives. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (c)](i) two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife, and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives;(ii) two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands;Explanation.--In this clause 'ancestor' includes the father and 'ancestress' the mother. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e)]...
half baked
Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out impractical or unrealistic as a half baked proposal half baked ideas of plans theories proposals etc...
half holiday
a day on which half of the day is free from work or duty a holiday of one half of a day...
one half
one of two equal parts of a divisible whole a half a century and one half...
Half year
Half year, means a half-year commencing on the 1st day of April or the 1st day of October, or such other date as the State Government may, by notification appoint. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(20)]...
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