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Light Motor Vehicle

Light Motor Vehicle, 'light motor vehicle' means a transport vehicle or omnibus the gross vehicle weight of either of which or a motor car or tractor or road-roller the unladen weight of any of which, does not exceed 7,500 kilograms. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2(21)]--means a transport vehicle or omnibus the gross vehicle weight of either of which or a motor car or tractor or road-roller the unladen weight of any of which, does not exceed 7500 kilograms. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (21)]...

Heavy locomotive and light locomotive

Heavy locomotive and light locomotive, means a mechanically propelled vehicle which is not constructed itself to carry a load, other than excepted articles, and the weight of which unladen(1) in the case of a light locomotive, exceeds 7,370 but does not exceed 11,690 kilograms; and(2) in the case of a heavy locomotive, exceeds 11,690 kilograms [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 40(1), para 16, p. 24]....

Light year

The distance over which light can travel in a years time in a vacuum 588 trillion miles 946 trillion kilometers used as a unit in expressing stellar distances It is more than 63000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun The star nearest to the earths sun is about 4 light years distant...

Light struck

Damaged by accidental exposure to light light fogged said of plates or films...

light sensitive

Affected by light as the light sensitive pigments in the retina...

Light horseman

A soldier who serves in the light horse See under 5th Light...

light haired

being or having light colored skin and hair as a certain light haired girl Contrasted to brunet...

Light foot

Having a light springy step moving lightly and nimbly nimble in running or dancing active as light foot Iris Opposite of heavy footed...

Lightly

With little weight with little force as to tread lightly to press lightly...

False lights

False lights. S. 667 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 667, imposes a penalty upon any person who after receiving notice fails to extinguish or screen any fire or light that may be mistaken for a lighthouse. See FALSE SIGNAL.In an invasion-of-privacy action a plaintiff's allegation that the defendant attributed to the plaintiff views that he or she does not hold and placed the plaintiff before the public in a highly offensive and untrue manner, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 619....

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