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A word coined by Lewis Carroll Charles L Dodgson and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort...
Herrnhuter
One of the Moravians so called from the settlement of Herrnhut the Lords watch made about 1722 by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis count of Zinzendorf upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen...
Lewis
An iron dovetailed tenon made in sections which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise used in hoisting large stones etc...
palimpsest
A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...
Completion
Completion, as regards third parties, means completion in fact, and not completion to the satisfaction of the architect or otherwise ascertained in some manner prescribed by the contract, Lewis v. Hoare, (1881) 44 LT 66, CA.Means practical completion, Emson Eastern Ltd. v. EME Developments Ltd., (1991) 55 BLR 114....
Conversion, equitable
Conversion, equitable. It is an established principle that money directed to be employed in the purchase of realty, and realty directed to be sold and turned into money, are considered inequity as that species of property into which they are directed to be converted; and this, in whatever manner the direction is given; whether by will, or contract, marriage articles, settlement, or otherwise; and whether the money is actually deposited, or only covenanted to be paid, or whether the land is actually conveyed, or only agreed to be conveyed, Fletcher v. Ashburner, (1779) 1 Bro CC 497; 1 W&TLC. This principle is governed by the doctrine of equity, that that which ought to be done shall be deemed as actually done.The property thus equitably transmuted by anticipation will possess all the qualities, incidents, and peculiarities of that kind of property into which it is destined to be changed. See 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74, s. 71.But the beneficiary, or all the beneficiaries together, provided they ...
Crime
Crime, is a word, of which the interpretation has varied with the philosophic bias of the writer; it has been described as the violation of a right, when considered in reference to the evil tendency of such violation, as regards the community at large, but this definition is too wide; and would include any evil act or movement whether or not it is punishable by law. The (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), s. 5, defines crime for the limited purposes of the Act as either felonies or specified offences or misdemeanours, while 'offence' means any act which is not a 'crime' and is punishable on indictment or summary conviction. In our law misdemeanour is generally used in cotradistinction to felony, and comprehends all indictable offences which do not amount to felony, as perjury, battery, libels, conspiracies, etc. see OFFENCE, and consult Russell on Crimes, and Mellor v. Denham, (1880) 5 QBD 467, and other cases decided upon the meaning of 'criminal cause or ...
Perpetuity
Perpetuity, concerns rights of property only, and does not affect the making of contracts, which do not create rights of property, Ram Baran Prasad v. Ram Mohit Hazara, AIR 1967 SC 744: (1967) 1 SCR 293.Is a future limitation, whether executory or by way of remainders, and of either real or personal property which is not to vest until after the expiration of, or will not necessarily vest within the period fixed and prescribed by law for the creation of future estates and interests, Walsh v. Secretary of State for India, (1863) 10 HLC 367.Perpetuity, unlimited duration; exemption from intermission or ceasing, where, though all who have interest should join in a covenant, so that they could not bar or pass the estate. It is odious in law, destructive to the common wealth, and an impediment to commerce, by preventing the wholesome circulation of property.The rule against perpetuities, or the doctrine of remoteness, applies to the corpus of property whether real or personal, and whether li...
Preferential payments
Preferential payments, in bankruptcy, administra-tion of estates of persons dying insolvent, and winding up of a company:-One year's rates and taxes, four months' salaries of clerks up to fifty pounds, and two months' wages of labourers or workmen, up to twenty-five pounds (labourers in husbandry paid partly in a lump sum at the end of the year of hiring to have the whole or proportionate part of that sum). Also sums due under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, the National Insurance Acts (Health and Unemployment and Contributory Pensions). These debts rank equally between them unless the assets are insufficient, in which case they are to abate in equal proportions. By the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (see s. 34), the preference was extended to apprentices. See the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 33, and the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 264, by which these debts are directed to be paid in priority to all others; and by s. 264 (4) (b) of the Companies Act, 1929, these debts are ...
Public meeting
Public meeting, a meeting which any person may attend. Any number of persons may meet in any place for any lawful purpose with the consent of the owner of that place; but without such consent, and in any case in the public streets, which are lawfully used for the purpose of passing and repassing only (see the ruling of Charles, J., in the Trafalgar Square case in 1887, and Ex parte Lewis, (1888) 21 QBD 191), there is no 'right of public meeting' known to English law.Political meetings within a mile of Westminster Hall during the session of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by s. 1 provides as follows:-1.-(1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty ...
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