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Home Dictionary Name: munitionMunitions of war
Munitions of war. As to keeping secret patents for their invention, see s. 30 of the Patents and Designs Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 32), and Patent Rules, 1932, rr. 106-108. As to supplying such to foreign states at peace with this country, for the purpose of hostilities between themselves, see 33 & 34 Vict. c. 90. As to the establishment of a Ministry of Munitions during the Great War, see 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 51. It was abolished by 11 Geo. 5, c. 8. Cf. CONTRABAND.It includes the whole or any part of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar engine, arms and ammunition, torpedo, or mine intended or adopted for use in war, and any other article, material or device, whether actual or proposed, intended for such use. [Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), s. 2 (5)]...
Chemical weapons
Chemical weapons, 'chemical weapons' means,--(i) the toxic chemicals and their precursors, except where intended for--(a) industrial, agricultural research, medical, pharmaceutical or other peaceful purposes; (b) protective purposes, namely those purposes directly related to protection against toxic chemicals and to protection against chemical weapons; (c) military purposes not connected with the use of chemical weapons and not dependent on the use of the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of warfare; or (d) Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes, as long as the types and quantities are consistent with such purposes (ii) the munitions and devices, specifically designed to cause death or other harm through the toxic properties of those toxic chemicals specified in sub-clause (i), which would be released as a result of the employment of such munitions and devices; and (iii) any equipment specifically designed for use directly in connection with the employment of ...
Equip
To furnish for service or against a need or exigency to fit out to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way to provide with arms or an armament stores munitions rigging etc said esp of ships and of troops...
VerbarMateacuteriel
That in a complex system which constitutes the materials or instruments employed in distinction from the personnel or men as the baggage munitions provisions etc of an army or the buildings libraries and apparatus of a college in distinction from its officers...
Munite
To fortify to strengthen...
Munition
Fortification stronghold...
Declaration of London, 1909
Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...
Official secrets
Official secrets. The (English) Official Secrets Act, 1889, was the first Act aimed at the prevention of the disclosure of official secrets. This Act was repealed and re-enacted with amendments by the (English) Official Secrets Act, 1911, which has been amended by the (English) Official Secrets Act, 1920. It is made an offence to spy in a 'prohibited place,' or wrongfully to communicate codes, plans, models, documents, or information relating to such a place, or to munitions of war, or which are used in such a place. There are special provisions as to arrest, the harbouring of spies, and the issue of search warrants. A Secretary of State may require the production of any document relating to a telegram or cable or wireless message. Every person who carries on the business of receiving letters, postal packets, or telegrams for other persons must be registered with the police and keep a record of the letters, etc., passing through his hands, and must not give up a letter, etc., unless a ...
Radour
Radour [Fr.], a term including the repairs made to a ship, and a fresh supply of furniture and victuals, munitions, and other provisions, required for the voyage, Bouvier's Law Dict....
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