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Home Dictionary Name: occasionalism Page: 3Obvention
Obvention, means an incoming fee or revenue, esp. one that comes occasionally or incidentally, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1105....
Land-waiter
Land-waiter, denotes an officer of the custom-house, whose duty is, upon landing any merchandise, to examine, taste, weigh, or measure it, and to take an account thereof. In some ports they also executethe office of a coast-waiter. They are likewise occasionally styled searchers, and are to attend and join with the patent-searcher in the execution of all dockets for the shipping of goods to be exported to foreign ports; and in cases where drawbacks on bounties are to be paid to the merchant on the exportation of any goods, they, as well as the patent-searchers, are to certify the shipping thereof on the debentures, Encyc. Londin....
Laureate
Laureate, means (1) An officer of the sovereign's household, who composed odes annually on the sovereign's birthday, on the new year, and occasionally on the occurrence of a remarkable victory (2) A person honoured for great achieve-ment in the arts and sciences, and exp. in poetry, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 889....
Motion
Motion, an occasional application to a Court in the progress of a cause, e.g., a motion for an injunction or the appointment of a receiver pending the trial of the action; or summarily and wholly unconnected with plenary proceedings, as a motion to rectify the register of a company.As to the notice of motion and procedure generally, see R.S.C., Ord. LII.Motion, every question to be decided by the House must be proposed by a member in the form of a motion, the motion is made by a member of the House and a question on it is put by the Chair. Thereupon the decision of the House is obtained, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine, May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 328.Motion, is a proposal made in the House of legisla-ture to elicit its decision on a subject, Office of the Speaker in the Parliament of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 481.Motions, are usually expressed in affirmative, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A., Abraham and S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 122....
Abatement
Abatement, a making less:-(1) Abatement of Freehold.-The title of a real action which has been abolished. This takes place where a person dies seised of an inheritance, and before the heir or devisee enters, a stranger, having no right, makes a wrongful entry and gets possession of it. Such an entry is technically called an abatement, and the stranger an abater. It is, in fact, a figurative expression, denoting that the rightful possession or freehold of the heir or devisee is overthrown by the unlawful intervention of a stranger. Abatement differs from intrusion, in that it is always to the prejudice of the heir or immediate devisee, whereas the latter is to the prejudice of the reversioner or remainder man: and disseisin differs from them both, for to disseise is to put forcibly or fraudulently a person seised of the freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a.(2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A remedy allowed by law to a person injured by a nuisance to remove or put an end to it by his own...
Occasionari
Occasionari, to be charged or loaded with payments or occasional penalties....
Offerings
Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, cc. 13, 20 (repealed by the Church Assembly Measure, 16 & 17 Geo. 5,No. 5), and 21. Voluntary Easter offerings received by an incumbent are profits accruing to him and are assessable for income tax, Cooper v. Blakiston, 1909 AC 104....
Partial insanity
Partial insanity, mental unsoundness always exist-ing although only occasionally manifest; such as monomania, See Snith v. Tebbitt, (1867) LR 1 P&D 398....
Prices, current
Prices, current, a list or enumeration of various Articles of merchandise, with their prices, the duties (if any) payable thereon, when imported or exported, with the drawbacks occasionally allowed upon their exportation, etc....
Public Building
Public Building, include building used or cons-tructed or adopted to be used as place of public worship, or as hospital, college, school, hotel, restaurant, public lecture room, public exhibition, etc. or used or constructed or adopted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any other similar public purpose said public purpose is not relatable to use of land by government but user thereof which is means for public at large, AIR 2006 (NOC) 568 (P&H)....
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