Neoclassic Architecture - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: neoclassic architectureNeoclassic architecture
All that architecture which since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance about 1420 has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco Roman buildings...
Neoclassic
Belonging to or designating the modern revival or adaptation of classical esp Greco Roman style taste and manner of work in architecture arts literature etc...
Architectural work of art
Architectural work of art., 'architectural work of art' means any building or structure having an artistic character or design, or any model such building or structure. [Copy right Act, 1957 (14 of 1957), s. 2(b)]...
Georgian architecture
British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges especially that of the period before 1800...
Pilaster
An upright architectural member right angled in plan constructionally a pier See Pier 1 b but architecturally corresponding to a column having capital shaft and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width or less...
Architect
Architect, 'architect' means a person whose name is for the time being entered in the register. [Architects Act (20 of 1972), s. 2(a)]A person who is skilled in the study of architecture, or more generally a person who prepares designs or plans of a building and supervises its erection. The plans of an architect cease to be his property as soon as he has been paid for his work upon them, Gibbon v. Pease, 1905 (1) KB 810. As to the liability of an architect for negligence, see Columbus Co. v. Clowes, (1903) 1 KB 244, and Chambers v. Goldthorpe, 1901 (1) KB 624; with regard to an architect's certificate, see the last-cited case and Eaglesham v. McMaster, 1920 (2) KB 169, also Hudson on Building Contracts, 6th ed. 'Architectural works of art,' as defined by the Act, are protected by the Copyright Act, 1911, see s. 35. The Architects (Regulation) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 33), provides for the Registration of Architects....
Fine arts
Fine arts. As to copyright in works of art, see the Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46). 'Artistic work' is defined by the Act as including 'works of painting, drawing, sculpture and artistic craftsmanship, and architectural works of art and engravings and photographs (s. 35). 'Work of sculpture' includes casts and models (ib.). 'Architectural work of art' is defined by the Act as 'any building or structure having an artistic character or design in respect of such character or design, or any model for such building or structure, provided that the protection afforded by the Act shall be confined to the artistic character and design and shall not extend to processes or methods of construction'; 'engravings' include 'etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints, and other similar works, not being photographs'; and 'photograph' includes photolithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography (ib.). As to what acts amount to an infringement of copyright, see s. 2 of ...
Publication
Publication, divulgation; proclamation; also 'the communication of defamatory words to some person or persons other than the person defamed' (Odgers on Libel).The publication of fair reports of legal proceedings in Court (other than ex parte proceedings) is a Common Law right exempt from proceedings for libel.As to the publication of an apology for libel in a newspaper, see LIBEL.Is essential in an action of defamation that the publication be to a third person, though the law is otherwise in Scotland. Thus, there can be no publication as between husband and wife, Wennhak v. Morgan, (1888) 20 QBD 635; but publication can be made to either husband or wife respecting the other, Jones v. Williams, (1888) 1 TLR 572. The third party to whom the matter is published may be in the position of a servant or clerk, Edmondson v. Birch & Co., (1907) 1 KB 371, but see Osborn v. Boulter & Son, (1930) 2 KB 226; but must be able to understand the defamatory character of the matter, Sadgrove v. Hole, (19...
copyright
copyright : a person's exclusive right to reproduce, publish, or sell his or her original work of authorship (as a literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, or architectural work) see also common-law copyright, fair use at use, infringe intellectual property at property, international copyright, original, public domain compare patent, trademark NOTE: Copyrights are governed by the Copyright Act of 1976 contained in title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Act protects published or unpublished works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression from which they can be perceived. The Act does not protect matters such as an idea, process, system, or discovery. Protection under the Act extends for the life of the creator of the work plus fifty years after his or her death. For works created before January 1, 1978, but not copyrighted or in the public domain, the copyright starts on January 1, 1978, and extends for the same period as for other works, but in any case will not expire before Decembe...
Barbaresque
Barbaric in form or style as barbaresque architecture...
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