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Uses
and in pleading it used to be described as Statutum de usibus in possessionem transferendis. It became a pivot of English conveyancing. Its effect was that where any person was seised to the use of another, then
Potance
The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made
Pinchers
An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot used for griping things to be held fast drawing nails etc
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Oarlock
are designed for use with oars having attached swivels which insert into the oarlock and provide a firm pivot Same as Rowlock1
Machine
screw and its nut or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot etc especially a construction more or less complex consisting of a combination of moving parts or simple mechanical
Herisson
A beam or bar armed with iron spikes and turning on a pivot used to block up a passage
Pedrail
spokes Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs This arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles
Material
Committee Exp. McCormick (Q.B.D.), (2000) 1 WLR 1804 Material, means 'fundamental', vital, basic, cardinal, central, crucial, decisive, essential, pivotal, indispensable, elementary or primary, Burton's Legal Thesaurus (3rd Edn.), p. 349. Material, means 'legally significant' or relevant, Clen
Holding
SC 865: (1982) 1 SCC 680: (1982) 3 SCR 218. A court's determination of a matters of law pivotal to its decision; a principle drawn from such decision, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 737. Means a
Rowlock
the gunwale sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar same as oarlock
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