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The direction in which the north pointing end of a compass needle points at low latitudes it is close to geographic true north but deviates substantially from true north as one nears the north pole...
North
Lying toward the north situated at the north or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning proceeding toward the north or coming from the north...
north polar
Of or pertaining to the North Pole at or near the north pole characteristic of the north pole...
North-Eastern region
North-Eastern region, means the North-Eastern region of India comprising the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1992), s. 2(l)]...
North American
of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America and their peoples...
North Central
Of or pertaining to a region of the U S generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana Wyoming and Colorado...
Northness
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north...
North Britain
North Britain, Scotland....
British America
British America. See Fur Trade Act, (1 & 2 Geo. 4, c. 66), North-Western Territories Act (22 & 23 Vict. c. 26), and the British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3), by which the Dominion of Canada was formed by the union of the provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Manitoba joined the Union in 1870, British Columbia in 1871, and Prince Edward Island in 1873. Outlaying British possessions were added by Order in Council in 1880, and Newfoundland alone remains independent. The Act of 1867 was amended by the British North America and other Acts, all referred to collectively as the British North America Acts, 1867 to 1930. See STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER....
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 ...
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