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Home Dictionary Name: nine barkNine bark
A white flowered rosaceous shrub Neillia opulifolia or Spiraeliga opulifolia common in the Northern United States The bark separates into many thin layers whence the name...
Possession is nine points of the law
Possession is nine points of the law. This adage is not to be taken to be true to the full extent, so as to mean that the person in possession can only be ousted by one whose title is nine times better than his; but it places in a stronger light the legal truth that every claimant must succeed by the strength of his own title and not by the weakness of his antagonists. For instance, if the claimant be able to show a descent from the grantor of the estate, perfect except in one link of the chain, and the man in possession be a perfect stranger, the latter shall keep the estate; and so, also, if the claimant be a natural son of the last owner and adopted by him, and declared by him to be designed as his heir, yet if he dies without making a will in his favour, a stranger in possession has a better title. In Beddall v. Maitland, (1881) 17 Ch D p. 183, Sir Edward Fry, speaking of the statute 5 Rich. 2, stat. 1, c. 8, which makes a forcible entry an indictable offence, says: 'This statute c...
Quillaia bark
The bark of a rosaceous tree Quillaja Saponaria native of Chile The bark is finely laminated and very heavy with alkaline substances and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap Also called soap bark...
Sassy bark
The bark of a West African leguminous tree Erythrophlaeligum Guineense used by the natives as an ordeal poison and also medicinally called also mancona bark...
Article Nine security interest
Article Nine security interest see interest ...
Cat o nine tails
a whip used as an instrument of punishment consisting of nine pieces of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back called also the cat It was used in the British Navy to maintain discipline on board sailing ships...
cloud nine
a state of extreme or perfect happiness used especially in the phrase on cloud nine...
nine
Eight and one more one less than ten as nine miles...
Bark
To strip the bark from to peel...
Bark beetle
A small beetle of many species family Scolytidaelig which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees often doing great damage...
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