Listerism - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: listerismListerism
The systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the treatment of wounds so called from Joseph Lister an English surgeon...
Lister
One who makes a list or roll...
Listerian
Of or pertaining to listerism...
Listerize
To make antiseptic...
Dilapidation
Dilapidation, decay; a kind of ecclesiastical waste, either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage house, and other buildings thereunto belonging to decay. See the (English) Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871 and 1872 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 43, and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 96), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'The term is also used to signify that disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable to a landlord during and at the end of a tenancy under an express agreement to keep and yield up the demised premises in good repair; see Lister v. Lane, (1893) 2 QB 212; Torrents v. Walker, (1906) 2 Ch 166; Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe v. McOscar, (1924) 1 KB 716 (CA), also FORFEITURE, and Landlord and Tenant Housing Act....
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