Lah Slit - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: lah slitLah-slit
Lah-slit, a mulct for offences committed by the Danes, Anc. Inst. Eng....
slit shell
Any species of Pleurotomaria a genus of beautiful pearly spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip Many fossil species are known and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas...
slitting
a amp n from slit...
General custom of the Punjab
General custom of the Punjab, General custom - 'the general custom of the Punjab' is inaccurate. Plowden J., in Ralla v. Budha, 50 Pun Re 1893 at p. 223 said, 'it seems expedient to point out that there is strictly speaking no such thing as a custom or a general custom of the Punjab, in the same sense as there is a common law of England, - a general custom applicable to all persons throughout the province, subject (like the English common law) to modification in its application, by a special custom of a class, or by a local custom.' Young C.J., said in Mt. Simon v. Shahu, ILR 17 Lah 10 (11): AIR 1935 Lah 93, 'There is no such thing as general customary law known to the Legislature.' In Kesar Singh v. Achhar Singh, ILR 17 Lah 101 (106): AIR 1936 Lah 68 (69), Addison A.C. J. said that the expression 'general custom of the Punjab' was clearly a misnomer. Ujagar Singh & Co. v. Jeo, AIR 1959 SC 1041 (1044): 1959 Supp (2) SCR 781....
Chap
To cause to open in slits or chinks to split to cause the skin of to crack or become rough...
Diffraction
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars...
diskette
a data storage medium consisting of a small plastic disk coated with a thin layer of magnetizable material on one or both sides enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit It is used in a specially designed disk drive in which the disk is rotated at high speed and which stores data on the disk by causing changes in the direction of magnetization of the magnetic layer as the disk spins and as sequential locations on the disk pass under the read write head of the drive Reading of the data occurs in the reverse process by detection of the patterns of magnetization of the disk Such disks are used to store data or programs for a microcomputer...
Earmark
A mark on the ear of sheep oxen dogs etc as by cropping or slitting...
Kerf
A notch channel or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing...
paperknife
A dull knife used to cut open the envelopes in which letters are mailed or to slit uncut pages of books...
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