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Meat, retail dealers in: see (English) Retail Meat Dealers' Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 30), which provides for the compulsory closing of retail meat traders' shops and stalls on Sunday, with exemption in respect to Jewish retail dealers in meat, who may keep open on Sunday under license, on giving notice to the local authority and displaying notices as provided by the Act, but he must not keep open on Saturday. As to inspection and destruction of unsound meat, see (English) Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 50), s. 180, and see UNSOUND FOOD.Meat includes blood, bones, sinew, eggs, shell or carapace, fat and flesh with or without skin, whether raw or cooked, or any wild animal or captive animal, other than a vermin. [Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972 (53 of 1972), s. 2(20)]Meat, the dictionary meaning of the word meat in terms of Webster's New International Dictionary is as 'meat-flesh of animals used as food as distinguished f...
Meat on hoof
Meat on hoof, In the Oxford English Dictionary, 1933 Edn., Volume V, page 372, one of the meanings of 'hoof' is mentioned as follows: The massive horny growth which sheathes the ends of the digits or encases the foot of quadrupeds forming the order Ungulata, primarily that of the horse and other equine animals: it corresponds to the nails or claws of other quadrupeds. In Collins English Dictionary at page 705 'hoof is defined as under: 1.a. the horny covering of the end of the foot in the horse, deer, and all other ungulate mammals. (in combination): a hoofbeat. Related adj.: angular. 2. the foot of an ungulate mammal. 3. a hoofed animal. 4. Facetious. a person's foot. 5. On the hoofs. 7. hoof it, Slang. a. to walk. b. (intr.) to dance. [Old English hoof; related to Old Norse Hofr, Old High German hoof (German Huf), Sanskrit saphas]. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Third Edn., Vol. 2, page 1333 'hoofs' is mentioned in respect of 'Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act, 1926'. In any event...
Mince meat
Minced meat meat chopped very fine a mixture of boiled meat suet apples etc chopped very fine to which spices and raisins are added used in making mince pie...
Meat
Food in general anything eaten for nourishment either by man or beast Hence the edible part of anything as the meat of a lobster a nut or an egg...
Milk for meat
Milk for meat, i.e., that the agister of cows should take their milk in exchange for their pasturage. See London and Yorkshire Bank v. Belton, (1885) 15 QBD 457, where it was held that under such an agreement the farmer is taking a 'fair price' for the grass within s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883 (s. 35 of the Act of 1883), by which live stock taken in to be fed 'at a fair price' are exempted from distress for rent....
White meats
White meats, milk, butter, cheese, eggs and any composition of them, Cowel....
Puture
Puture, a custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take man's meat, horse's meat, and dog's meat, of the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. The land subject to this customis called terra putura. Others, who call it pullture, explain it as a demand in general; and derive it from the monks, who before they were ad-mitted, pulsabant, knocked at the gates for several days together, 4 Inst. 307....
Sportula, or sportella
Sportula, or sportella, a dole or largess either of meat or money given in the time of the Roman Empire by princes or great men to the poor. It was properly the pannier or basket in which the meat was brought, or with which the poor went to beg it, thence the word was transferred to the meat itself, and thence to money sometimes given in lieu of it....
Treating
Treating. The temporary (English) Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102), s. 4, amended by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended to municipal, school board, and other elections by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1884, and continued from time to time by Expiring Laws Continuance Acts, enacts that every candidate who corruptly by himself, or by or with any person or otherwise, before, during, or after any parlia-mentary election, directly or indirectly gives or provides, or causes to be given or provided, or is accessory to giving or providing, or pays any ex-penses for meat, drink, entertainment, or pro-vision, for any person, in order to be elected, or for being elected, or for corruptly influencing any person to give or refrain from giving his vote, or on account of having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting, is guilty of treating, and forfeits 50l. to any informer wi...
Market
Market [anciently written mercat, fr. mercatus, Lat.], a public time and place of buying and selling; also purchase and sale. It differs from the forum, or market of antiquity, which was a public market-place on one side only, the other sides being occupied by temples, theatres, etc.A market can only be set up by virtue of a royal grant, or by long and immemorial usage, which presupposes a grant.See FAIRS; and (English) Public Health Act, 1875, s. 167, the Public Health Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 6), and the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 14); (English) Markets and Fairs (Weighing of Cattle) Acts, 1886 to 1926.As to disturbance of market, see Goldsmid v. Great Eastern Railway Co., (1884) 9 App Cas 927; A.G. v. Horner (No. 2), (1913) 2 Ch 140. In City of London Fruit Corporation v. Lyons, Sons & Co. Ltd., 1936 Ch 78, it was held that any member of the public has a right of access to a franchise market on payment of tolls and observance of bye-laws for the purpose of ...
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