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Contravention

The act of contravening opposition obstruction transgression violation...

VerbarHydronephrosis

An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages...

A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction It is characterized by complete constipation with griping pains in the abdomen which is greatly distended and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter Called also ileac passion or iliac passion...

Infarct

An obstruction or embolus in one of the blood vessels...

Interclusion

Interception a stopping obstruction...

Estoppel

A stop an obstruction or bar to ones alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action allegation or denial an admission by words or conduct which induces another to purchase rights against which the party making such admission can not take a position inconsistent with the admission...

Lame

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury defect or temporary obstruction of a function as a lame leg arm or muscle...

Obstruent

Causing obstruction blocking up hindering as an obstruent medicine...

Betting

Betting. For definition and for s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), see WAGER.Bets are irrecoverable at law by virtue of s. 18 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1845, and the (English) Gaming Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 9). The latter statute gets rid of the decision in Real v. Anderson, (1884) 13 QBD 779; and see Tatam v. Reeve, (1893) 1 QB 44; and De Mattos v. Benjamin, (1894) 70 LT 560. In the case of a cheque given in payment of a gaming transaction the combined effect of s. 1 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1710 (9 Anne, c. 14), and ss. 1 and 2 of the (English) Gaming Act, 1835, was that if it was paid to any indorsee or holder, the amount so paid could be recovered by the drawer from the payee, Dey v. Mayo, (1920) 2 KB 346; Sutters v. Briggs, (1922) 1 AC 1. The Gaming Act, 1922, does away with this position.The (English) Betting Act, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 119)--as to which see Reg. v. Brown, (1895) 1 QB 119--elaborately provides for suppressing of houses, rooms...

Air

Air. As to the right to the enjoyment of air free and unpolluted, see Gale on Easements, and Goddard on Easements; but the claim to air is usually made good under a claim to light and air. The nature and extent of the right to air (which is not a subject of prescription within the Prescription Act) is discussed by Fry, J., in Hall v. Lichfield Brewery Co., (1880) 49 LJ Ch 655, in which damages were given for the obstruction of air to a slaughter-house; and see Bass v. Gregory, (1890) 25 QBD 481, and Chastey v. Ackland, 1897 AC 155....

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