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relating to or extending over a relatively long time as the long run significance of the elections...
long term
same as long run as the long term consequences...
ostrich
A large bird of the genus Struthio of which Struthio camelus of Africa is the best known species It has long and very strong legs adapted for rapid running only two toes a long neck nearly bare of feathers and short wings incapable of flight The adult male is about eight feet high...
Quitch grass
A perennial grass Agropyrum repens having long running rootstalks by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously and so becomes a troublesome weed Also called couch grass quack grass quick grass twitch grass See Illustration in Appendix...
Custom
Custom [fr. Costume, It.; coustume, coutume, Fr.; costumbre, Sp.; consuetudo, Lat.], 'Custom maybe defined to be a law or right not written which being established by long use and consent of our ancestors has been and daily is put in practice' (Les Termes de la Ley). In Lockwood v. Wood, 6 QB 50, Tindal C.J., at p. 64 says that it is 'in effect , the Common Law within that place to which it extends although contrary to the General Law of the realm.' If it be universal, it is Common Law; if particular, it is then properly custom. The requisites to make a particular custom good are these: (1) It must have been used so long that the memory of man runs not to the contrary; (2) it must have been continued and (3) peaceable; also (4) reasonable and (5) certain; (6) compulsory, and not left to the option of every person, whether he will use it or not; and (7) consistent with other customs, for one custom cannot be setup in opposition to another; see 1 Bl. Com. 76. Customs are of different kin...
Jacana
Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera all of which have spurs on the wings They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long spreading toes Called also surgeon bird...
VerbarRoulade
A smoothly running passage of short notes as semiquavers or sixteenths uniformly grouped sung upon one long syllable as in Handels oratorios...
Lasso
A rope or long thong of leather with a running noose used for catching horses cattle etc...
Wrong
Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged ha...
Gallinule
One of several wading birds having long webless toes and a frontal shield belonging to the family Rallidae They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio The common European gallinule Gallinula chloropus is also called moor hen water hen water rail moor coot night bird and erroneously dabchick Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule Gallinula galeata...
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