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Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device and not changeable by programming of functions as error correction is hard wired into the circuit of the disk drive so it proceeds very rapidly...
Barbed-wire
Barbed-wire. By the (English) Barbed Wire Act,1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 32), s. 2, 'barbed wire' means any wire with spikes or jagged projections; and the expression 'nuisance to a highway,' as applied to it, means barbed wire which may probably be injurious to persons or animals lawfully using such highway. A local authority can require the removal of barbed wire adjoining a highway when it thus constitutes a nuisance; but on lands not adjoining a highway a person is in general under no liability for the use of such wire....
Electrical resistance wires
Electrical resistance wires, the expression 'electrical resistance wires' in Item 73(23) has to be read along with the 'Nichrome' which precedes that expression and, it can only mean electrical wires having characteristics similar to those of Nichrome, namely, high resistivity, keeping in view the low resistivity of Tungsten wire it cannot be regarded as electrical resistance wire falling under Item 73(23), Union of India v. Kalpana Industries Ltd., 1995 Supp (6) SCC 712 (714). [Customs Tariff Act, 1934, Sch. I, Item 73(23)]...
hot wire
to start a car by using a wire instead of a key as when stealing the car the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key...
Office wire
Copper wire with a strong but light insulation used in wiring houses etc...
Barbed wire
Barbed wire, means wire with spikes or jugged projections, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 491, p. 365....
Wire rods
Wire rods, properzi rods are a species of 'wire rods', Indian Aluminium Cables Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1985 SC 1201 (1205): (1985) 3 SCC 284: (1985)Supp 1 SCR 731. [Central Excise and Sales Act (1 of 1944), Sch. I, item 27(a)(ii)]...
Wires, Overhead
Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the Post Office to place telegraph lines across private property or property belonging to public undertakings, etc., see the (English) Telegraph Acts (41 & 42 Vict. c. 76; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 112; and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 40), and special or local Acts....
Hard labour
Hard labour, a punishment said to have been intro-duced by 5 Anne, c. 6. By the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, s. 16(1), 'where a person convicted by or before any Court of an offence is sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine, the imprisonment may, in the discretion of the court, be either with or without hard labour, notwithstanding that the offence is an offence at common law, or that the statute under which the sentence is passed does not authorize the imposition of hard labour or requires the imposi-tion of hard labour.' Imprisonment for default in payment of a fine is always without hard labour....
wire fraud
wire fraud see fraud ...
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