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Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points...
Advertisement
Advertisement, [fr. avertissement, Fr.], a public notice or announcement of a thing.The duties payable on advertisements were repealed by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 63, s. 5.As to the protection afforded to Trustees and Personal Representatives by issuing an advertisement for creditors before distributing any real or personal property, see (English) Trustee Act, 1925, s. 27, amended by the (English) Law of Property (Amend.) Act, 1926, s. 7, and extending the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 29; Re Bracken, (1890) 43 Ch D 1.The regulation of advertisements is provided for by the (English) Advertisements Regulation Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 27), and the (English) Ancient Monuments Act, 1931 (20 & 21 Geo. 5), s. 7. See also Advertisements Regulation Act, 1925, respecting advertisements affecting the view or amenities of a village or historic building. Advertisements for stolen property may amount to an offer to compound a felony, and thus constitute an offence w...
Barratry
Barratry, 1. Usually called 'common barratry,' the common moving of suits and quarrels in disturbance of the peace, either in courts or elsewhere.The punishment is fine and imprisonment; 'and if the offender belonged to the profession of the law he was disabled from practising for the future, by 12 Geo. 1, c. 29, s. 4, which is unrepealed, though long obsolete.2. In marine assurance, the commission of any fraud upon the owners or insurers of a ship by the master or crew, as deserting her, sinking her, or doing any act which may subject her to arrest, detention, loss, or forfeiture, etc. It is the practice in most countries to insure against barratry. Many foreign jurists hold that it comprehends every fault which the master and crew can commit, whether it arises from fraud, negligence, unskilfulness, or mere imprudence. But in this country it is ruled that no act of the master or crew shall be deemed barratry, unless it proceed from a criminal or fraudulent motive.-see Arnould, or Chal...
Biological resources
Biological resources, 'biological resources' means plants, animals and micro-organisms or parts thereof, their genetic material and by-products (excluding Value Added Products) with actual or potential use or value, but does not include human genetic material. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(c)]...
Common quality
Common quality, The common quality uniting the potential beneficiaries into the class consists of being members of the Rana caste of community of Ahmedabad whether as natives or as being admitted to that caste or community under custom or usage. The mere fact that a person of the Rana community who is not an original native of Ahmedabad has to prove his credentials according to the custom and usage of that community to get admitted into that community cannot introduce a personal element, Ahmedabad Rana Caste Association v. Commissioner of Income-tax, (1972) 1 SCR 744: AIR 1972 SC 273 (276): (1971) 3 SCC 475....
Dead
Dead, means at or about earth potential and disconnected from any live system. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, s. 2 (p) (1)]; Lifeless....
Juridical link
Juridical link, means a legal relationship between members of a potential class action, sufficient to make a single suit more efficient or effective than multiple suits, as when all members of the class have been similarly affected by an allegedly illegal regulation. Also termed juridical relationship, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 854....
Gibbet
Gibbet [fr. gibet, Fr.], a gallows; but post on which malefactors are hanged, or on which their bodies are exposed after death-a practice abolished in England by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 36.A post with one arm extending from top, from which originals one either executed by hanging as suspended after death as a warning to other potential offender, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 696....
Entelechy
An actuality a conception completely actualized in distinction from mere potential existence...
Jury process
Jury process, means (1) the procedure by which jurors are summoned and their attendance is enforced. (2) The papers served on or mailed to potential jurors to compel their attendance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 862.Jury process, the writ for the summoning of a jury. They were the distringas juratores, or habeas corpora juratorum, and the venire juratores facias, now abolished. A jury is summoned by precept. See 23 & 24 Vict. c. 77...
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