Muzzle Loader - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: muzzle loaderMuzzle loader
A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech...
Muzzle loading
Receiving its charge through the muzzle as a muzzle loading rifle...
Dog
Dog. Draught.--The (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 9, and the (English) Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act, 1912, s. 8, prohibit, under a penalty, the use of any dog in England or Scotland for the purpose of draught.Licenses.--Dog licenses are regulated by the (English) Dog Licenses Act, 1867 (30 Vict. c. 5), as amended by 32 & 33 Vict. c. 14, s. 38, 41 Vict. C. 15, ss. 17-23, and 42 & 43 Vict. c. 21, s. 26. They commence on the day of grant, and terminate on the 31st of December following; but procuring a license on the day of a conviction will not avoid the penalty up to 5l. under s. 8 of the Act of 1867, Campbell v. Strangways, (1877) 3 CPD 105. The present duty is 7s. 6d., to which it was raised from 5s. by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 15), and this s. is amended by s. 5 of the (English) Dogs Act, 1906. See Johnson v. Wilson, (1909) 2 KB 497. No duty is payable for dogs under six months old (Act of 1867, s. 10), or hound whelp...
Loader
One who or that which loads a mechanical contrivance for loading as a gun...
Construction equipment vehicle
Construction equipment vehicle, means rubber tyred, (including pneumatic tyred), rubber padded or steel drum wheel mounted, self-propelled, excavator, loader, backhoe, compactor roller, dumper, motor grader, mobile crane, dozer, fork lift truck, self-loading concrete mixer or any other construction equipment vehicle or combination thereof designed for off-highway operations in mining, industrial undertaking, irrigation and general construction but modified and manufactured with 'on or off' or 'on and off' highway capabilities. [The Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, s. 2 (ca)]...
Husting
Husting [fr. hus-thing, A.-S.]. council, curt, tribunal; apparently so called from being held within a building at a time when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local curt. The county curt in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, Winchester, Lincoln, and in other places, similar to the London hustings, Madox, Hist. Excheq., c. xx. Also the raised wooden platform from which candidates for seats in Parliament, prior to the (English) Ballot Act, 1872, addressed the constituency on the occasion of their public oral nomination, and from which a show of hands was taken by the returning officer.A deliberative assembly, esp. one called by kingor other loader, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 746...
Breech loading
Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle...
Chokebore
In a shotgun a bore which is tapered to a slightly smaller diameter at a short distance usually 212 to 3 inches to the rear of the muzzle in order to prevent the rapid dispersion of the shot...
Cocker spaniel
One of a breed of small or medium sized spaniels kept for hunting or retrieving game or for household pets They usually weigh from eighteen to twenty eight pounds They have the head of fair length with square muzzle the ears long and set low the legs short or of medium length and the coat fine and silky wavy but not curly Various colors are bred as black liver red black and white black and tan etc...
Depress
To press down to cause to sink to let fall to lower as to depress the muzzle of a gun to depress the eyes...
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