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Line clear

Line clear, what is meant by line-clear is not that the lines in the station yard are clear for reception of the train but that there is no obstruction on the track beyond the outer-most signals on the down side of the station which the train has to enter, Awadh Behari Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1956 SC 738 (742): (1956) Cri LJ 1372....


Sharp cut

Cut sharply or definitely or so as to make a clear well defined impression as the lines of an engraved plate and the like clear cut hence having great distinctness well defined clear...


bright line

bright line : a clear distinction that resolves a question or matter in dispute bright-line adj ...


modem

An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves and sound waves into electronic signals used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines also called modulator demodulator as the latest modems can transmit data at 56000 baud over a clear telephone line The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud equivalent to bits per second...


Hyphen

A mark or short dash thus placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word the remainder of which is carried to the next line or between the parts of many a compound word as in fine leaved clear headed It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words...


Scauper

A tool with a semicircular edge used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving...


Lien

Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...


Crossed cheques

Crossed cheques. It is very usual for the drawer of a cheque to write across it, between two parallel lines, the name of the payee's banker, in which case the banker on whom the cheque is drawn should only pay to that banker; in other cases, as when the drawer is unaware of the payee's banker, it is usual for himto write merelythe words 'and Co.,' leaving it to the payee to add the ename of his banker if the payee so intends, or if the parallel lines are left in blank except of the words 'and Co.' the cheque canonly be paid by the Bank on whom it is drawn to or through a Bank. This serves as some security in case the cheque is lost, since it can only be paid through a banker, and moreover postpones in some measure the payment until the clearing hours in the afternoon. See Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), ss. 76-80; and (English) Bills of Exchange (Crossed Cheques) Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 17) passed in consequence of Capital and Counties Bank v. Gordon, 1903 AC 240), b...


Abstract of title

Abstract of title. A concise statement, usually prepared for a mortgagee or purchaser of real property, summarising the history of a piece of land including all conveyances interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it.Every purchaser of land or real estate has an implied right to have an abstract of title delivered to him within a reasonable time, Compton v. Bagley, (1892) 1 Ch 313. As to registered land, see the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement and discloses every incumbrance affecting it, by setting out the material parts of all deeds, wills and other documents, and stating the facts on which it depends: fc. 1 Pres. 42, 207. The statutory period is thirty years,...


Equity

Equity [fr. 'quitas, Lat.] There is some confusion as to the meaning of Equity; as a scheme of jurispru-dence distinct from Law 'Equity' is an equivocal term; the difficulty lies in drawing the dividing lines between the several senses in which it is used. They may be distinguished thus:-(1) Taken broadly and philosophically, Equity means to do to all men as we would they should do unto us-by the Justinian Pandects, honeste vivere, alterum non l'dere, suum cuique tribuere. It is clear that human tribunals cannot cope with so wide a range or duties.(2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius of every kind of human jurisprudence; since it expounds and limits the language of the positive laws, and construes them not according to their strict letter, but rather in their reasonable and benignant spirit.Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correc...


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