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covering long distances as a long distance runner a long distance telephone call...
Toll
Toll [fr. tollo, Lat.], to bar, defeat, or take away, as to 'toll an entry' is to deny and take away the right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 39.1. A sum of money paid for use of something esp. The consideration paid to use a public road, highway, or bridge2. A charge for a long call distance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.[fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll, Wel.; taille, Fr.] has two significations:-(1) A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market.(2) A tribute or custom paid for passage. For its importance in railway law, see ss. 3, 86 and 92 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, providing that:-It shall be lawful for the company to use and employ locomotive engines or other moving power, and carriages and waggons to be drawn or propelled thereby, and to carry and convey upon the railway all such passengers and goods as shall be offered to ...
nisi prius
nisi prius [Medieval Latin, unless before, the words introducing a clause in an English writ commanding a sheriff to provide a jury at the Court of Westminster on a certain day unless the judges of assize previously come to the county from which the jury is to be returned] : a court of record that tries an issue of fact before a jury and a single judge : trial court ;also : the proceedings in such a court : the conducting of jury trials [long-distance travel eliminated the nisi prius practice of the justices "W. J. Brennan, Jr."] ...
Boomerang
A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India It is usually a curved stick of hard wood from twenty to thirty inches in length from two to three inches wide and half or three quarters of an inch thick When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion it describes very remarkable curves according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it often moving nearly horizontally a long distance then curving upward to a considerable height and finally taking a retrograde direction so as to fall near the place from which it was thrown or even far in the rear of it...
Long sighted
Able to see objects at a great distance hence having great foresight sagacious farseeing...
natural gas
The combustible gas found associated with petroleum deposits and also in other geological formations comprised predominantly of methane plus variable other constitutents It is an important source of energy and is transported long distances by pipelines or in a liquefied state in tankers for commercial distribution Some natural gas deposits contain helium and comprise the primary source of that rare element...
optical fiber
A thin fiber of very pure glass used to carry signals transmitted by means of light It has much greater information carrying capacity than a copper wire and in the 1990s became a dominant means of transmitting telephone communications over long distances...
In the town of.... and surrounding areas and extensions
In the town of.... and surrounding areas and extensions, surrounding areas and extensions would naturally include those areas which are on the periphery of the town, and which are adjacent to the town. They would not obviously include any areas which are geographically far removed from and situated at long distance from the town and which could not be said to be in the vicinity of the town, CIT v. Kamla Town Trust, AIR 1996 SC 620: (1996) 7 SCC 349....
Distance
Distance. For any statute passed after 1st January, 1890, distance is to be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 34....
Distancy
Distance...
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