Jaw Fallen - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jaw fallenJaw fallen
Dejected chopfallen...
Fruit fallen
Fruit fallen, the produce of any possession detached thereform, and capable of being enjoyed by itself. Thus, a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the advowson....
Lantern jawed
Having lantern jaws or long thin jaws as a lantern jawed person...
Jawed
Having jaws chiefly in composition as lantern jawed...
Jaw fall
Depression of the jaw hence depression of spirits...
Pig jawed
Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower with the upper incisors in advance of the lower said of dogs...
deacuteclasseacute
reduced or fallen in status social position class or rank fallen from a high status or rank to a lower one...
Forest Courts
Forest Courts, fallen into absolute desuetude. They were instituted for the government of the royal forests in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done to the deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which such deer were lodged. They consisted of the Courts of attachments, regard, sweinmote, and justice-seat. The Court of attachments, woodmote, or forty days' Court, was held before the verderers of the forest once in every forty days, to inquire into all offences against vert and venison. The Court of regard, or survey of dogs, held every third year, for the expeditation of mastiffs. The Court of sweinmote, held before the verderers thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. It inquired into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest, and tied presentments certified from the Court of attachments against offences in vert and venison. The Court of justice-seat...
Gymnodont
One of a group of plectognath fishes Gymnodontes having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw as the diodonts and tetradonts See Bur fish Globefish Diodon...
Hyomandibular
Pertaining both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw as the hyomandibular bone or cartilage a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes...
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