Knife - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: knifeKnife
An instrument consisting of a thin blade usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting fastened to a handle but of many different forms and names for different uses as table knife drawing knife putty knife pallet knife pocketknife penknife chopping knife etc...
Bowie knife
A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long and double edged near the point used as a hunting knife and formerly as a weapon in the southwestern part of the United States It was named from its inventor Colonel James Bowie Also by extension any large sheath knife...
Case knife
A knife carried in a sheath or case...
Fact discovered
Fact discovered, The expression 'fact discovered' includes not only the physical object produced, but also the place from which it is produced and the knowledge of the accused as to this, Prabhoo v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1113 (1115). [Evidence Act 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 27]It is fallacious to treat the 'fact discovered' within the section as equivalent to the object produced; the fact discovered embraces the place from which the object is produced and the knowledge of the accused as to this, and the information given must relate distinctly to this fact. Information as to past user, or the past history, of the objects produced is not related to its discovery in the setting in which it is discovered. Information supplied by a person in custody that 'I will produce a knife concealed in the roof of my house' does not lead to the discovery of a knife; knives were discovered many years ago. It leads to the discovery of the fact that a knife is concealed in the house of the inform...
Jackknife
A large strong clasp knife for the pocket a pocket knife...
Knives
n pl of Knife See Knife...
Billhook
A thick heavy knife with a hooked point used in pruning hedges etc When it has a short handle it is sometimes called a hand bill when the handle is long a hedge bill or scimiter...
Bistoury
A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife either straight or curved generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided and cutting towards the surface...
Bladed
Having a blade or blades as a two bladed knife...
Bolo
A kind of large knife resembling a machete...
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