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Heap, means any unit of a commodity for sale where such sale is intended to be made without any weighment or measurement or, where the sale is made by number, without counting the number. [Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforce-ment) Act, 1985 (54 of 1985), s. 3(e)]...
Cumulate
To gather or throw into a heap to heap together to accumulate...
heaps
a large quantity See heap senses 2 and 3 as he made heaps of money in the stock market...
Thrave, or Threave
Thrave, or Threave [Nor.-Fr.], twenty-four sheaves or four shocks of corn; a certain quantity of straw; also a herd, a drove, a heap.Means a communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another or on another's property, especially one that might diminish a person's freedom to act voluntarily or with lawful consent, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1489....
Meya
Meya, a mow or heap of corn, Blount, Ten. 130....
False pretence, obtaining property
False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:-Every person who, by any false pretence:(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person fradulently causes or induces any other person:(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or(b) to write, impress or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any corporate body or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt wi...
Barrow
Barrow [fr. beorg, Sax., a heap of earth], a large mound used as a sepulchre, found in many parts of England....
Scree
A pebble a stone also a heap of stones or rocky deacutebris...
Pilement
An accumulation a heap...
Monton
A heap of ore a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation...
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