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a type of random access memory using circuits that require periodic refresh cycles in order to retain the stored information Contrasted to static ram which maintains the memory state as long as the power is still applied...
Custom
Custom [fr. Costume, It.; coustume, coutume, Fr.; costumbre, Sp.; consuetudo, Lat.], 'Custom maybe defined to be a law or right not written which being established by long use and consent of our ancestors has been and daily is put in practice' (Les Termes de la Ley). In Lockwood v. Wood, 6 QB 50, Tindal C.J., at p. 64 says that it is 'in effect , the Common Law within that place to which it extends although contrary to the General Law of the realm.' If it be universal, it is Common Law; if particular, it is then properly custom. The requisites to make a particular custom good are these: (1) It must have been used so long that the memory of man runs not to the contrary; (2) it must have been continued and (3) peaceable; also (4) reasonable and (5) certain; (6) compulsory, and not left to the option of every person, whether he will use it or not; and (7) consistent with other customs, for one custom cannot be setup in opposition to another; see 1 Bl. Com. 76. Customs are of different kin...
EPROM
EPROM, stands for erasable programmable ROM. Word 'ROM' is an acronym for 'Read Only Memory' a type of unchangeable memory residing in chips or the ICs on mother board. ROM contains bare minimum of instructions needed to start a computer. ROM is sometime wrongly compared to a storage media such as CD-ROMs, Anjaleem Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. v . Commissioner of Central Excise, (2006) 2 SCC 336: (2006) 1 JT 353: (2006) 1 SCALE 314: (2006) 1 Supreme 312: (2006) 1 SLT 529: (2006) 2 SCJ 225: (2006) 3 SCJD 280: (2006) 194 ELT 129....
Obit
Obit [a corruption of the Latin obiit, or obivit, he died], a funeral solemnity or office of the dead; the anniversary office.The tenure of obit, or obituary, or chantry lands is taken away by 1 Edw. 6, c. 14, and 15 Car. 2, c. 9.Obit, means (1) A memorial service on the anniversary of a person's death (2) A record or notice of a person's death, an obituary, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1100....
Memorial rose
A Japanese evergreen rose Rosa wichuraiana with creeping branches shining leaves and single white flowers It is often planted in cemeteries...
Decoration Day
a day May 30 originally appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War in the United States now called Memorial Day and established as the last Monday in May and designated as a day for commemorating those who died in all wars of the United States...
Parol evidence
Parol evidence, testimony by the mouth of a witness. It is a general rule that oral evidence cannot be substituted for a written instrument, where the latter is required by law, or to give effect to a written instrument, defective in any particular essential to its validity; nor contradict, alter, or vary a written instrument, required by law, or agreed upon by the parties, as the authentic memorial of the facts which it recites. But parol evidence is admissible to defeat a written instrument on the ground of fraud, mistake, etc., or to apply it to its proper subject, or, in some instances, as ancillary to such application to explain the meaning of doubtful terms, or to rebut presumptions arising extrinsically. In these cases the parol evidence does not usurp the place of written evidence, but either shows that the instrument ought not to be allowed to operate at all, or is essential in order to give to the instrument its legal effect.The general rule with regard to the admission of pa...
funeral home
An establishment usually commercial where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation called also funeral parlor mortuary funeral chapel and informally undertakers The body may or may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing though present in a casket Often some form of memorial service is held for the deceased at the funeral home where friends and relatives may come to pay their respects to the dead and express condolence to the family The work of preparation of the body and many other arrangements related to the funeral and burial are carried out by an undertaker or mortician who manages the funeral home...
Memoir
A memorial account a history composed from personal experience and memory an account of transactions or events usually written in familiar style as they are remembered by the writer See History 2...
Memorial
Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event something which serves to keep something else in remembrance a monument...
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