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Home Dictionary Name: pamphletPublicity pamphlet
A pamphlet which in some States of the United States having the initiative or referendum is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it respectively...
Pamphlet
Pamphlet [fr. par un filet, Fr., by a thread], a small book, usually printed in the octavo form, and stitched, The Act 10 Anne, c. 19, s. 113, as to the printers of pamphlets, was repealed by 33 & 34 Vict. c. 99. See now PRINTERS....
Pamphleteer
A writer of pamphlets a scribbler...
Book
Book, the 'book' in common acceptation is a literary composition from which one may extend or advance his or her knowledge and learning, Commr. of Customs v. Parasrampuria Synthetics Ltd., (2001) 9 SCC 74 (82).--For the purposes of s. 15 of the Copyright Act,1911, dealing with the delivery of books to certain libraries, the expression 'book' includes every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table separately published, but not a second or subsequent edition of a book unless such edition contains additions or alterations either in the letterpress, or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto. By s. 15 a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom must be sent to the British Museum, and on written demand to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and subject to certain provisos the N...
Brochure
A printed and stitched book containing only a few leaves a pamphlet a single sheet folded to make four pages...
Esperanto
An artificial language intended to be universal devised by Dr Zamenhof a Russian who adopted the pseudonym ldquoDr Esperantordquo in publishing his first pamphlet regarding it in 1887 The vocabulary is very largely based upon words common to the chief European languages and sounds peculiar to any one language are eliminated The spelling is phonetic and the accent stress is always on the penult A revised and simplified form called Ido was developed in 1907 but Esperanto remained at the end of the 20th century the most popular aritficial language designed for normal human linguistic communication...
Libelous
Containing or involving a libel defamatory containing that which exposes some person to public hatred contempt or ridicule as a libelous pamphlet...
Pamphlet
A writing a book...
British museum
British museum, founded in 1752, under the will of Sir Hans Sloane and 25 Geo. 2, c. 22. The museum is governed by a body of trustees' of whom three, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, are ex-officio trustees. The museum is entitled to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom by s. 15 of the Copyright Act, 1911, but certain classes of publications, e.g., trade advertisements, registers of voters, specifications of Patents, time tables, calendars, etc., may be excepted; see British Museum Act, 1932. The trustees are authorized to store newspapers at 'the Hendon building' by the British Museum Act, 1902, and to lend objects for public exhibition by 14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 23. In Martin v. British Museum Trustees, (1894) 10 TLR 338, the plaintiff failed to recover for a libel in a pamphlet bought by the defendants and placed in the library for public use....
Harmful publication
Harmful publication, means any book, magazine, pamphlet, leaflet, newspaper or other like publication which consists of stories told with the aid of pictures or without the aid of pictures or wholly in pictures, being stories portraying wholly or mainly:(i) the commission of offences; or(ii) acts of violence or cruelty; or(iii) incidents of a repulsive or horrible nature. [Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act, 1956 (93 of 1956), s. 2 (a)]...
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