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A process by which copper matte is treated by passing through it a blast of air to oxidize and remove sulphur It is analogous in apparatus to the Bessemer process for decarbonizing cast iron So called from Pierre Manhegraves a French metallurgist who invented it...

Matte

A partly reduced copper sulphide obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores and called coarse metal fine metal etc according to the grade of fineness On the exterior it is dark brown or black but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color...

Matted

Having a dull surface lusterless unburnished same as matte as matted gold leaf or gilding...

Arbitration

Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them.Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 100.Means any arbitration whether or not administered by permanent arbitral institution. [The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(a)]An arbitrator is a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred, Termes de la Ley.The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator, though both found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference in that manner which appears most just and equitable.An ar...

Arches, Court of

Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, an officer before whom, or his Deputy, the court of the Duchy Chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction concerning all mattes of equity relating to lands held of the Crown in right of the Duchy of Lancaster; which is a thing very distinct from the county palatine (which has also its separate chancery for sealing of writs or the like), and comprises much territory lying at a vast distance from it, as particularly a very large district surrounded by the city of Westminster. This court has been inactive for more than a century. See COUNTY PALATINE....

Commissioner

Commissioner, a person authorized by letters-patent, Act of Parliament, or other lawful warrant, to examine any mattes, or execute any public office, etc. The (English) Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 16), regulates the qualification, etc., of commissioners, who under an Act of Parliament execute undertakings of a public nature; and in particular enacts by s. 60 that they are not to be personally liable....

Costs

Costs, expenses incurred in litigation or professional transactions, consisting of money paid for stamps, etc., to the officers of the Court, or to the counsel and solicitors, for their fees, etc.Costs in actions are either between solicitor and client, being what are payable in every case to the solicitor by his client, whether he ultimately succeed or not; or between party and party, being those only which are allowed in some particular cases to the party succeeding against his adversary, and these are either interlocutory, given on various motions and proceedings in the course of the suit or action, or final, allowed when the matter is determined.Neither party was entitled to costs at Common Law, but the Statute of Gloucester (6 Edw. 1, c. 4), gave cots to a successful plaintiff, and 2 & 3 Hen. 8, c. 6, and 4 Jac. 1, c. 3, to a victorious defendant; see Garnett v. Bradley, (1878) 3 App Cas 944.In proceedings between the Crown and a subject the general rule is that the Crown neither ...

Cross-bill

Cross-bill, answering to the reconventio of the CanonLaw, as a mode of defence by cross-examination, was one filed by a defendant in the Court of Chancery against the plaintiff or other defendants in the same suit, either to obtain (1) a necessry discovery of facts in aid of his defence to the original bill; or (2) full relief to all parties, touching the mattes of the original bill. See now COUNTERCLAIM.Also a bill of exchange given in consideration of another bill....

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