Skip to content

Public Use - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Handling

transportation by vehicle, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such hazardous substance, Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2(c). Means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use,

jury commission

jury commission : a body of appointed public officers who maintain a jury list and select the names of prospective jurors usually at random by use

Bathing, sea

Bathing, sea. There is no Common Law right in the public to use the sea-shore for bathing. So held (diss. Best, J.) in Blundell v. Catterall, (1821) 5 B

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Auction

Auction, signifies generally an increasing, an enhancement, and hence is applied to a public sale of property usually conducted by biddings, which augment the price. A spear used to be raised by … is applied to a public sale of property usually conducted by biddings, which augment the price. A spear used to be raised by the Romans, at the sign of a public auction, Livy, xxiii. 37; Smith's Dict.

Oyez

Oyez (hear ye), the introduction to any proclamation or advertisement given by the public criers both in England and Scotland. It is pronounced oh ! yes ! See NORMAN FRENCH. Means the … It is pronounced oh ! yes ! See NORMAN FRENCH. Means the utterance oyez, oyez. Oyez is usually used in court by the public crier to call the courtroom to order when a session begins or when

Peculate

To appropriate to ones own use the property of the public to steal public moneys intrusted to ones care to embezzle

Forensic

Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate used in legal proceedings or in public discussions argumentative rhetorical as forensic eloquence or disputes … Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate used in legal proceedings or in public discussions argumentative rhetorical as forensic eloquence or disputes

forensic

forensic [Latin forensis public, forensic, from forum forum] 1 : belonging to, used in, or suitable to the courts or to public … forensic [Latin forensis public, forensic, from forum forum] 1 : belonging to, used in, or suitable to the courts or to public discussion and debate 2 : relating to or dealing

Billiards

Billiards. By the (English) Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c.109), ss. 10-14, every house 'where a public billiard table or bagatelle board, or instrument used in any game of the like kind is kept' (not … & 9 Vict. c.109), ss. 10-14, every house 'where a public billiard table or bagatelle board, or instrument used in any game of the like kind is kept' (not being a house licensed for the sale of

Fire

By s. 90 of the (English) Public Health Amendment Act, 1907, local authorities can agree for the common use of fire engines and appliances; ss. 87-89 of the same Act give the police certain powers of breaking … Dictionary, 7th Edn. Fire Engines.--The maintenance of fire engines in urban sanitary districts is provided for by the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 171, which incorporates ss. 30-33 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, in

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial