Picking - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: pickingPick-pocket, or Pick-purse
Pick-pocket, or Pick-purse, a thief who steals by putting his hand privately into the pocket or purse of another: an offence punishable with great severity in early times and still a felony as larceny from the person within s. 14 of the Larceny Act, 1916. See Reg. v. Ring, (1892) 61 LJMC 116, where it was held an offence to attempt to pick an empty pocket....
hand picked
carefully selected as a hand picked jury the companys president groomed his hand picked successor...
Picking
The act of digging or breaking up as with a pick...
Pick of Land
Pick of Land, a narrow slip of land running into a corner....
Pick-lock
Pick-lock, an instrument by which locks are opened without a key....
Public Order Act, 1936
Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of limitary or similar character, and to make further provision for the preservation of public order on the occasion of public processions and meetings and in public places.S. 1.-Prohibition of uniform in connection with political objects.S. 2.-Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.S. 3.-Confers powers for the preservation of public order on the occasion of processions.S. 4.-Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and processions.S. 5.-Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.S. 6.-Amendment of Public Meeting Act, 1908; see PUBLIC MEETING.S. 7.-Enforcement.S. 8.-Application to Scotland.S. 9.-Interpretation.S. 10.-Short title and extent.A person who commits an offence under s. 2 is liable on summary conviction to a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment ...
Picker
One who or that which picks in any sense as one who uses a pick one who gathers a thief a pick a pickax as a cotton picker...
Floccillation
A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person as if to pick off flocks of wool carphology an alarming symptom in acute diseases...
Fossick
To search for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots picking over abandoned workings etc hence to steal gold or auriferous matter from anothers claim...
Pickoff
a play in which a base runner is picked off See pick off...
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