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Oquassa

A small handsome trout Salvelinus oquassa found in some of the lakes in Maine called also blueback trout

Patriots Day

A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine April 19 the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775 It was first observed in 1894

Quercitron

tinctoria the American black oak yellow oak dyers oak or quercitron oak a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas

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Investment company

company' was defined in s. 109(i) of the Act as meaning a com-pany whose business consisted wholly or mainly in the dealing in or holding of investments. The statutory percentage in the case of an investment company

Parish meeting

registered electors, may, by the 1933 Act, Sch. III, Part VI, para. 2, convene a parish meeting. The main business of a parish meeting is to elect the parish council. But whether the parish has a parish

Land Drainage Act, 1930

Catchment Board in the case of a catchment area. Catchment areas, the drainage of which directed to a main river, are set out in Part I., Schedule I., but they may be increased; each catchment area is

Macnaughton's Case, Rules in

political, medical, and legal writers (see, for example, Lord Birkenhead's letter to The Times, May 26th, 1924). The main rule which is laid down is, that in order to establish a defence on the ground of insanity,

Minor ante tempus agere non potest in casu proprietatis, nec etiam convenire; differetur usque etatem; sed non cadit breve

Minor ante tempus agere non potest in casu proprietatis, nec etiam convenire; differetur usque etatem; sed non cadit breve [Lat.], a minor before majority cannot act in a case of property, not even to agree; it...

Non-journalist newspaper employee

establishment, but does not include any such person who-- (i) is a working journalist, or (ii) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or (iii) being employed in a supervisory capacity, performs, either by the

Ordinarily

Ordinarily, may means 'normally', State of Andhra Pradesh v. V. Sharma Rao, AIR 2007 SC 137; Kailash Chandra v. Union of India, (1962) 1 SCR 374: AIR 1961 SC 1346; Krishan Gopal v. Shri Prakash Chandra,...

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