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Ganz system
canal boats in which an electric locomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materially increased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclined gripping wheels
Aggravation
of action itself, need not be traversed in pleading. In a count, for example, charging a trespass in pulling down a house, it is mere matter of aggravation to state that the plaintiff was in it at
Saccade
sudden violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull
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Navigation acts
of Richard the Second, Henry the Seventh, and Elizabeth. All the Navigation Acts were repealed in 1849. See Pulling's Shipping Code.
Bank
see Macaulay's Hist. Of England, ch. Xx.; Hall. Const. Hist., ch. xv.; and for the original Charter, see Pulling's Statutory Rules and Orders, vol. I., tit. 'Bank.' (2) The Bank of Scotland, established by Wm. 3, Parl.
Bridge
borough for the repair of bridges not repairable by any person ratione tenur'. As to the offence of pulling down, throwing down, or destroying a bridge, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.
Coif
lawn coif they wore on their heads under their caps when created serjeants, Cowel. See SERJEANT, and consult Pulling's State and Degree of the Coif.
Common serjeant
(14)]., and one of the judges of the Central Criminal Court (q.v.); an assistant to the Recorder. See Pulling on the Laws and Customs of London.
Dilapidation
Dilapidation, decay; a kind of ecclesiastical waste, either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage house, and other buildings thereunto belonging to decay. See the
Last proximate act test
of attempt, based on whether the defendant does the final act necessary to commit an offence (such as pulling the trigger of a gun, not merely aiming if). This test has been rejected by most courts as
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