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Home Dictionary Name: milliMetric system
A system of weights and measures originating in France the use of which is required by law in many countries and permitted in many others including the United States the system is also called by its French name Le Systegraveme International de Uniteacutes abbreviated SI The principal unit of length is the meter see Meter From this are formed the are the liter the stere the gram etc These units and others derived from them are divided decimally and larger units are formed from multiples by 10 100 1000 and 10000 The successive multiplies are designated by the prefixes deka formerly deca hecto kilo and myria seldom used successive parts by deci centi and milli The prefixes mega and micro are used to denote a multiple by one million and the millionth part respectively giga and nano denote multiples of one billion 1000000000 and one billionth respectively The prefix for one trillion 1012 is tera and for one trillionth 10 12 is pico for one quintillion 1015 peta and for 10 15 one quintillion...
Milli
A prefix denoting a thousandth part of as millimeter milligram milliampegravere...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
Semper pr'sumitur pro negante
Semper pr'sumitur pro negante, (The presumption is always in favour of the negative.) On an equal division of votes in the House of Lords the question passes in the negative [see Reg. v. Millis, (1844) 10 Cl & F 634; Paquin v. Beauclerk (formerly Holden), 1906 AC 148]; and if any cort be equally divided [as was the Court of Queen's Bench in Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, (1848) 11 QB 483, on the question whether the opposition to the confirma-tion whether the opposition to the confirmation of a bishop is merely formal or not] things remain as they were before the Court was applied to; e.g., a rule for a mandamus is discharged....
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