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Mile

A certain measure of distance being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods or 5280 feet...

Mileage

An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile...

Chine

A chink or cleft a narrow and deep ravine as Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep...

A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period usually a year the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question...

Deputy

Deputy [fr. depute, Fr.], one who governs and acts instead of another, or who exercises an office, etc., in another man's right.By the Sheriffs Act, 1887 (see SHERIFF), every sheriff is directed to appoint a sufficient deputy having an office within a mile of the Inner Temple Hall, for the receipt of writs, etc.Judges of the Supreme Court cannot act by deputy; but County Court judges can under County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), ss. 11, 12, 15, in case of illness or unavoidable absence; and the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 166, enables recorders to appoint deputies in similar cases.As to appointment of deputy to recorder, stipendiary magistrate, or clerk of the peace, in case of inability of recorder, etc., himself to appoint, see the Recorders, Stipendiary Magistrates, and Clerks of the Peace Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 46). A deputy cannot make a deputy, 9 Rep. 49....

Leuca

Leuca, a measure of land, the extent of which is not precisely known: some say 1,500 paces. Ingulphus, p. 910, says 2,000 paces. In Dugd. Mon., tom. i. p. 313,it is 480 perches. Spelman says a mile....

Leucata

Leucata, a space of ground as much as mile contains, Dugd. Mon., tom. i. p. 768. And so it seems to be used in a charter of William the Conqueror to Battle Abbey....

Near

Near. In the Railway and (English) Canal Traffic Act, 1854, used of railway stations not more than one mile distant from each other; and in the (English) Unemployed Workmen Act,1905, s. 1 (a), by which the Ministry of Health may make orders extending s. 1 to 'boroughs or districts adjoining or near to London,' used without any definition. [S. 40(1)(e), Cr.P.C.]...

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff

Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...

Arm of the sea

Arm of the sea, means the portion of a river or bay in which the tide ebbs and flows. It may extend as far into the interior as the water of the river is ropelled backward by the tide, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 103.Arm of the sea, a bay, road, creek, cove, port, or river, where the water, whether salt of fresh, ebbs and flows, 5 Rep. 107. In Coulbert v. Troke, (1875) 1 QBD 1, it was held that the three-mile distance from the place of lodging which qualified a person to be a bona fide traveller within the meaning of s. 9 of the Licensing Act, 1874, was rightly calculated across an arm of the sea across which there was a public ferry....

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