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Mimeograph

A copying device that uses a stencil through which ink is pressed it was invented by Edison

Coat armour

Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who went to the Holy Land during

Case, action on the

new writs which were analogous to the writ of trespass, or in consimili casu with that action, were invented and issued under the appellation of 'trespass on the case' (brevia 'de transgressione super casum') as being founded

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Title

Purchasers. See REAL REPRESENTATIVE and REGISTRATION. The title to things personal may be acquired by: (1) Occupancy. (2) Invention. (3) Prerogative. (4) Forfeiture. (5) Custom. (6) Succession. (7) Marriage. (8) Judgment. (9) Gift or grant. (1) Contract.

Dry exchange

Dry exchange [cambium siccum, Lat.], a term invented in former times for the disguising and covering of usury, in which something was intended to pass on

Person interested

includes a person engaged in, or in promoting, research in the same field as that to which the invention relates. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2(t)] The definition of the 'person interested' must be liberally

Tontine

raised on life-annuities, with benefit of survivorship. The term originated from the circumstance that Lorenzo Tonti, an Italian, invented this kind of security in the seventeenth century, when the Governments of Europe had some difficulty in raising

VerbarLimaccedilon

A curve of the fourth degree invented by Pascal Its polar equation is r a cos theta b

Special pleading

Special pleading, the science of pleading. It is a forensic invention, due to the dialectic genius of the Middle Ages, but nearly destroyed by modern innovation. See Steph. On

Scope of a patent

Scope of a patent, means the invention limits protected under a patent, determined by methods based on established principles of patent law, Black's Law Dictionary,

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