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Adjustment of a loss

Adjustment of a loss [fr. adjuster, Tr., to make event], the settling and ascertaining the amount of the indemnity … the amount of the indemnity which the assured, after all allowances and deductions made, is entitled to receive under the policy,

Scrimp

To make too small or short to limit or straiten to put … or short to limit or straiten to put on short allowance to scant to contract to shorten as to scrimp the

palimpsest

written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were … of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church

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Geosynclinal

the downward bend or subsidence of the earths crust which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment and hence forms the

stop and frisk statute

stop and frisk statute : a state law that allows a police officer to stop any person without making an

filiation

prove filiation to another father. Such an action does not make the children illegitimate but does create a status of dual … instances where the legitimate children of one father have been allowed to prove filiation to another father. Such an action does

Street offences

discharging firearms, making bonfires, or setting fire to fireworks, and allowing ferocious dogs to be at large. The Act of 1847

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