Moabite Stone - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: moabite stoneMoabite stone
A block of black basalt found at Dibon in Moab by Rev F A Klein Aug 19 1868 which bears an inscription of thirty four lines dating from the 9th century b c and written in the Moabite alphabet the oldest Phoelignician type of the Semitic alphabet It records the victories of Mesha king of Moab esp those over Israel 2 Kings iii 4 5 27...
Stone-breaking
Stone-breaking, the word 'stone' as popularly understood in ordinary parlance particularly when is it coupled with the word 'breaking' or 'crushing' would exclude manganese. When we speak of stone-breaking or stone-crushing normally we refer to stone in the sense of 'piece of rock' and that would exclude manganese. Employment in stone-braking or stone-crushing in tis sense would refer to quarry operations...............' (AIR 1960 SC 1068), Labour Inspector (Central) Hyderabad v. Chittapore Stone Crushing Co., AIR 1972 SC 1177 (1180): (1972) 3 SCC 605. (Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Sch. Part I, Item 8]...
Rocking stone
A stone often of great size and weight resting upon another stone and so exactly poised that it can be rocked or slightly moved with but little force...
Dowle stones
Dowle stones, stones dividing lands, etc....
Dry stone
Constructed of uncemented stone...
Gravel stone
A pebble or small fragment of stone a calculus...
Ro setta stone
A stone found at Rosetta in Egypt bearing a trilingual inscription by aid of which with other inscriptions a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt...
Black stone lawyer
Black stone lawyer, means a lawyer with a broad knowledge of blackletter principles; A self-educated lawyer (especially in antebellum America) whose legal training consists primarily of reading Blackstone's Commentaries, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 163....
Moabite
One of the posterity of Moab the son of Lot Gen xix 37 Also used adjectively...
Moabitess
A female Moabite...
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