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Covenant

inherent that tend to the support of the lan or thing granted,or ae collateral to it; affirmative, or negative; executed, or that which is alreadyd one; executory, or that which is to be done. Shep. Touch. 160;

Condition

to the heir with the land granted, etc. Conditions are, likewise, affirmative, which consist of doing an act; negative, which consist of not doing an act; restrictive, for not doing a thing; compulsory, as that the lessee

Act of Parliament

but by implication, as when it is contrary thereto, i.e., so clearly repugnant that it necessarily implies a negative, but if the Acts can stand together, they shall have a concurrent efficacy; (9) Acts of Parliament cannot

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Articles, Lords of the

increase the influence of the Crown, and to confer upon it a power equivalent to that of a negative before debate. This system appeared inconsistent with the freedom of Parliament, and at the Revolution, the convention of

Rotograph

printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made and are then developed fixed cut apart and washed at

Pseudosphere

The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix This surface corresponds in non Euclidian space to the sphere

pro life

opposed to voluntary abortion to emphasize their view of a fetus as already living and to avoid the negative tone of a word beginning with ldquoanti rdquo

Positive

Having a real position existence or energy existing in fact real actual opposed to negative

Phototaxis

the migration is toward the source of light it is termed positive phototaxis if away from the light negative phototaxis

Marriage

is British subject outside England, except as altered by special colonial or Indian legislation, not merely prohibitory and negative, but creating a nullity by express words [Catterall v. Sweetman, (1845) 4 N.C. 222, and (1847) 5 N.C.

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