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Lot or loth
Lot or loth, the thirteenth dish of lead in the mines of Derbyshire, which belonged to the Crown.
odd-lot doctrine
odd-lot doctrine : a doctrine in workers' compensation law: a disabled worker who is not totally incapacitated for all work may nonetheless be considered totally disabled if there is no reasonably dependable market for his or...
Lottery
Lottery, a game of chance; a distribution of prizes by lot or chance, Taylor v. Smetten, (1883) 11 QBD 207. By 10 & 11 Wm. 3, c. 17, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Games,' all lotteries were declared...
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Tenure
Tenure, cannot be equated with 'terms and con-ditions of services' or payment of gravity or pension. Tenure when followed by words of office, means term of office, Punjab University v. Khalsa College, Amritsar, AIR 1971 P&H...
first in, first out
first in, first out : being or relating to a method of valuing inventories by which items in the lot first received are assumed to be issued or sold first and requisitions are priced at the...
last in, first out
last in, first out : being or relating to a method of valuing inventories by which items from the last lot received are assumed to be sold first and all requisitions are priced at the cost...
Inch of candle
mode of sale at one time in use among merchants; the goods to be sold were divided into lots, and at the sale a small piece of candle, about an inch long, was kept burning, and the
Cleromancy
A divination by throwing dice or casting lots
Raffles
Raffles. Selling any houses, plate, jewels, ships, goods, or other things by way of lottery or by lots, tickets, numbers or figures, was penalised by s. 36 of the (English) Lottery Act, 1721, of which Act
job
for a period of service 3 : to do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots : subcontract n 1 a : a piece of work ;esp : a small miscellaneous piece of work
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