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a : a power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanently or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress to prevent passage from through or into

To prevent by fear hence to hinder or prevent from action by

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potest facere videtur (2 Inst. 146), he who does not prevent what he can prevent, is regarded as doing the thing.

of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water or stowed among casks and other cargo

having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat and sometimes having the glass silvered to

is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. Accordingly, the two

checks or hampers the functioning or hinders or tends to prevent the performance of duty, as stated at p. 255 of

is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas

show that the highest degree of care was used to prevent in nuisance when conforming with the statute (see Manchester Corporation

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