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Begar

many other words has found its way in the English vocabulary. It is very difficult to formulate a precise definition of the word 'begar', but there can be no doubt that it is a form of forced

Billeting soldiers

subjects all innkeepers, etc., to the billets, and exempts private houses. The accommodation to be provided is very precisely laid down by s. 106 and Schedule II., as amended from time to time; the maximum remuneration is

Circuits

a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town,

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Conditional fee

in those instances especially where the qualification is not certain to take place. The estates will then continue precisely in the same manner, as if no collateral event, giving to the estate a determinate character, had been

Consideration

not necessary that the consideration and promise should be equivalent in actual value, for it would be impossible precisely to determine whether, in a given case, the consideration were adequate, without a psychological investigation into the motives

Decision height

Decision height, in relation to the operation of an aircraft at an aerodrome means the height in a precision approach at which a missed approach must be initiated if the required visual reference to continue that approach

Hindu

diverse forms of beliefs, faiths, practices and worship that it is difficult to define the term 'Hindu' with precision. In Unabridged Edition of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, the term 'Hinduism 'has been

Hundred

sed non determinatis constat; quidam enim ex pluribus, quidam ex pauucioribus constat.' Some accounts make it consist of precisely a hundred hides: others, of a hundred tithing, or of a hundred fee families. Certain it is that

New assignment

sometimes arose from the generality of the declaration, when, the complaint not having been set out with sufficient precision, it became necessary, from the evasiveness of the plea, to re-assign the cause of action with fresh particulars.

Industry

the context of the phrase which it define, realizing that the function of a definition is to give precision and certainty to a word or phrase which would otherwise wague and uncertain, but not contradict or supplant

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