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Old Bailey. The popular name for the Central Criminal Court....
Old Bailey Sessions
Old Bailey Sessions. These were superseded by the Central Criminal Court....
Metals, dealers in old
Metals, dealers in old, defined as any person dealing in, buying, and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such Articles only, or together with second-hand goods or marine stores, and the term 'old metals' means the said Articles. See (English) Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of an offence against the Act, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. See also (English) Public Stores Act, 1875, ss. 9, 10, and 11 and Public Health Amendment Act,...
Old machinery
Old machinery, in the absence of any indication to that effect and when the expression 'old' is by itself vague, imprecise, and ambiguous, being too general, the principle of noscitur a sociis will have to be applied i.e. all the associated words will take colour from each other, the meaning of the more general adjective viz. 'old' being restricted to a sense analogous to the less general adjectives 'discarded, unserviceable or obsolete'. In order to fall within the expression 'old machinery' occurr-ing in the entry, the machinery must be old machinery in the sense that it has become non-functional or non-usable, Rainbow Steels Ltd. v. C.S.T., AIR 1981 SC 2101 (2104): (1981) 2 SCC 141: (1981) 2 SCR 727. [U.P. Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), Notification dt. 30-5-1975, entry 15]...
Old fashioned
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern belonging to or characteristic of times past adhering to old customs styles or ideas as an old fashioned dress girl old fashioned wire rimmed glasses...
Oldness
The state or quality of being old old age...
old womanish
Like an old woman anile primly fastidious old maidish...
Old Dominion
Virginia a name of uncertain origin perh from the old designation of the colony as ldquothe Colony and Dominion of Virginiardquo...
Old gentlemanly
Pertaining to an old gentleman or like one...
old hat
same as old fashioned a 2...
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