Inhabitant

Inhabitant, in relation to a cantonment, or local area, means any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or occupying immovable property therein, and in case of a dispute means any person declared by the District Magistrate to be an inhabitant. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xviii)]...

Inhabit

To live or dwell in to occupy as a place of settled residence as wild beasts inhabit the forest men inhabit cities and houses...

Inhabitable

Capable of being inhabited habitable...

Inhabitate

To inhabit...

Inhabitiveness

See Inhabitativeness...

Inhabited house duty

Inhabited house duty. See HOUSE DUTY...

Helvetic

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii the ancient inhabitant of the Alps now Switzerland or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions as the Helvetic confederacy Helvetic states...

Way

Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...

kangaroo

Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidaelig They inhabit Australia New Guinea and adjacent islands They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble The giant kangaroo Macropus major is the largest species sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length The tree kangaroos belonging to the genus Dendrolagus live in trees the rock kangaroos of the genus Petrogale inhabit rocky situations and the brush kangaroos of the genus Halmaturus inhabit wooded districts See Wallaby...

Special jury

Special jury, a jury consisting of persons who, in addition to the ordinary qualifications, are of a certain station in society as esquires, bankers, merchants, etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man whose name shall be on the jurors' book for any county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who shall be legally entitled to be called an esquire, or shall be a person of higher degree, or shall be a banker or merchant, or who shall occupy a private dwelling-house rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 100l. in a town containing, according to the census then next preceding the preparation of the jury list, 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, or rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 50l. elsewhere, or who shall occupy premises other than a farm, rated or assessed as aforesaid on a value of not less than 100l., or a farm rated or assess...

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