Obstruction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Backwater
Water turned back in its course by an obstruction an opposing current or the flow of the tide as in a sewer or river channel or across
contempt
outside of the presence of the court 2 : willful disobedience to a lawful order of or willful obstruction of a legislative body in the course of exercising its powers [ of Congress] in contempt : in
Obstacle
That which stands in the way or opposes anything that hinders progress a hindrance an obstruction physical or moral
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Window cleaning
be in the sunk or basement story. Is, if the offence be in any street and to the obstruction, annoyance or danger of the residents, liable to fine up to forty shillings or to imprison-ment up to
Colic
A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen due to spasm obstruction or distention of some one of the hollow viscera
Thames
shores of the river, and they have ample powers (see s. 191) to make bye-laws for prevention of obstruction; for regulation of vessels, of persons using tow-paths, piers, etc., and of passage through locks; for regulation of
Hire
The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act
Oppilation
The act of filling or crowding together a stopping by redundant matter obstruction particularly in the lower intestines
Telegraphs
and 1869, s. 3). This definition includes telephones. The destruction or removal of an electric telegraph or the obstruction of message is a misdemeanour by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 37, 38 and as to offences
pachyderma
of the skin usually unilateral on an extremity caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction
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