Norfolk Plover - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: norfolk ploverNorfolk plover
The stone curlew...
Norfolk
Short for Norfolk Jacket...
Norfolk dumpling
A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk...
Sea plover
The black bellied plover...
Norfolk Groat
Norfolk Groat, 'd,...
Ringneck
Any one of several species of small plovers of the genus AEliggialitis having a ring around the neck The ring is black in summer but becomes brown or gray in winter The semipalmated plover AEliggialitis semipalmata and the piping plover AEliggialitis meloda are common North American species Called also ring plover and ring necked plover...
Circuits
Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged that at the majority of the circuit towns one judge only should attend, with the power, however, under Rule 9 of the Order, of requesting one of the judges in London to proceed to any place on circuit in his aid 'in order to enable the judges, as far as possible, to leve no cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford; (5) Midland; (6) Norfolk; (7) North Wales; and South Wales.By the (English) Judicature ...
Lapwing
A small European bird of the Plover family Vanellus cristatus or Vanellus vanellus It has long and broad wings and is noted for its rapid irregular fight upwards downwards and in circles Its back is coppery or greenish bronze Its eggs are the ldquoplovers eggsrdquo of the London market esteemed a delicacy It is called also peewit dastard plover and wype The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea...
Biffin
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk Eng...
Burhinidae
a natural family of large wading birds resembling the plovers the stone curlews...
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