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Tender

Tender, means an unconditional offer of money or performance to satisfy a debt or obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1479. Tender, offer; proposal for acceptance. 1. An unconditional offer of money or performance to...

Transubstantiation

Transubstantiation, 'the change of the substance of the Bread and Wine in the Supper of our Lord' (Art. 28 of the Thirtynine Articles of Religion); 'a conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the...

Waiver

Waiver, in an intentional relinquishment of a known right. There can be waiver unless the person against whom the waiver is claimed had full knowledge of his rights and of facts enabling him to take effectual...

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Westminster confession

Westminster confession, a document containing a statement of religious doctrine drawn up at a conference of British and Continental Protestant divines at Westminster in the year 1643, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian...

Bill of Exchange

Bill of Exchange. Defined in the (English) Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61), s. 3, as an 'unconditional order in writing, addressed by one person to another, signed by the person...

Campana bajula

Campana bajula, a small hand-bell, used in the ceremonies of the Roman Church, and retained amongst the Protestants by sextons, parish clerks, and criers, Cumb. ap. Wharton Angl. Sacr., par. 2, p. 637.

Expostulation

The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct remonstrance earnest and kindly protest dissuasion

After sight

After sight, the expression 'after sight' means, in a promissory note, after presentment for sight, and, in a bill of exchange, after acceptance, or noting for non-acceptance, or protest for non-acceptance. (Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, s....

Exclaim

To cry out from earnestness or passion to utter with vehemence to call out or declare loudly to protest vehemently to vociferate to shout as to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment ldquoThe field is...

blue flu

blue flu : an organized absence from work by police officers on the pretext of sickness that is staged for the purpose of protest

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