Papyrus - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: papyrusPapyrus
A tall rushlike plant Cyperus Papyrus of the Sedge family formerly growing in Egypt and now found in Abyssinia Syria Sicily etc The stem is triangular and about an inch thick...
charter
charter [Old French chartre letter, formal document, from Late Latin chartula, from Latin, diminutive of charta sheet of papyrus] 1 a : a grant or guarantee of rights, powers, or privileges from an authority or agency of a state or country [a state bank ] compare constitution b : a written instrument that creates and defines the powers and privileges of a city, educational institution, or corporation compare articles of incorporation 2 : a written instrument from the authorities of a society creating a lodge, branch, or chapter 3 : a lease of a ship esp. for the delivery of cargo called also charter party vt 1 : to establish, enable, or convey by charter [ a bank] 2 : to lease or hire for usually exclusive and temporary use [ a ship] ...
Cyperus
A large genus of plants belonging to the Sedge family and including the species called galingale several bulrushes and the Egyptian papyrus...
Papyraceous
Made of papyrus of the consistency of paper papery...
Papyrean
Of or pertaining to papyrus or to paper papyraceous...
Paper
Paper, includes vellum parchment or any other material or which an instrument may be written, Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1999, s. 2(xxvi).Paper. As to the paper on which proceedings in the Supreme Court must be printed, see PRINTING.It includes vellum, parchment or any other material on which an instrument may be written. [Indian Stamp Act, 1899, s. 2 (18)]The word 'paper' admittedly not having been defined either in the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 or the rules made thereunder, it has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly or generally understood. The said word which is derived from the name of reedy plant papyrus and grows abundantly along the Nile river in Egypt is explained in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (volume 2) (Third Edition) as: A substance composed of fibers interlaced into a compact web, made ...
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