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An Italic letter character or type see Italic a 2 often in the plural as the Italics are the authors Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis importance antithesis etc Also collectively Italic letters...
Implicata
Implicata [Ital.]. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiving small adventures on freight at so much per cent., to which they are entitled at all events, even if the adventure be lost, Merc. Law. [Ital.]. In order to avoid the risk of making fruitless voyages, merchants have been in the habit of receiving small adventures on freight at so much per cent., to which they are entitled at all events, even if the adventure be lost, Merc. Law....
Itala
An early Latin version of the Scriptures the Old Testament was translated from the Septuagint and was also called the Italic version...
Italicize
To print in Italic characters to underline written letters or words with a single line as to Italicize a word Italicizes too much...
Agio
Agio [aggio, Ital., an exchange of money for a premium], expresses the difference in point of value between metallic and paper money, or between one sort of metallic money and another, McCall. Com. Dict.; Smith's Wealth of Nations....
Bale
Bale [fr. bal, Sw.; balla Ital.; balle, bal Fr.], a pack or certain quantity of goods or merchandise, wrapped or packed up in cloth and tightly corded round, marked with figures corresponding to those in the bills of lading for the purpose of identification....
Ballot
Ballot [fr. balla, Ital.; balle, Fr.], a little ball or ticket used in giving votes.Means a small ball or ticket used for indicating a vote; the system of choosing persons for office by marking a paper or by drawing papers with names on them from a receptacle; the formal record of a person's vote, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 138.Means a system of voting involving secret votes, Monsanto PLC v. TGWU, (1987) 1 All ER 358; Post Office v. UCW, (1990) 3 All ER 199.Means small ball, ticket or paper used in secret voting, Oxford Concise Dictionary, p. 89.Means a ticket, paper, etc., by which a vote is registered, Webster Dictionary of Law, p. 113.Means drawing of lots used in Parliament to determine the precedence among members desiring a share of Parliamentary time available for certain kinds of business, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, (1956), p. 21.Ballot, in House of Commons ballots are held to allot the limited available in Parliament to private members, Pa...
Banco
Banco, means a seat or bench of justice, a tract of land cut off by the shifting of a river's course especially land that has become cut off in such a manner from the country it originally belonged to, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 139.Banco [Ital.]. see BANC. A seat or bench of justice; also, in commerce, a word of Italian origin signifying a bank....
Blockade
Blockade [fr. bloccato, Ital., military term], the disposition of troops or armed vessels, so as to cut off all external communication with an enemy's port fortress, city, etc. The term is now generally applied to the blockade of a port by armed vessels. By the Declaration of Paris, Art. 4, blockades in order to be binding must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Accordingly, the two essential circumstances necessary to make a blockade good against neutrals are-(1) that there be actually stationed at the place a sufficient force to prevent the entry or exit of vessels; and (2) that the party violating it shall be proved to be aware of its existence. The effect of a guilty violation of blockade to the offending party, when captured, is the condemnation usually of both the ship and the cargo. Consult Hall's International Law.Pacific blockades, i.e., blockades of the ports of a power with whom the blockading po...
Boscage
Boscage [fr. bosco, Ital.], food which wood and trees yield to cattle, as mast, etc....
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