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Institution for persons with disabilities

Institution for persons with disabilities, means an institution for the reception, care, protection, education, training rehabilitation or any other service of persons with disabilities. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities,

Line clear

clear, what is meant by line-clear is not that the lines in the station yard are clear for reception of the train but that there is no obstruction on the track beyond the outer-most signals on the

Military asylum of Chelsea

Military asylum of Chelsea, for the reception of children of soldiers, now called the Duke of York's Royal Military School, 17 & 18 Vict. c.

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Mortuary

s. 9 of the (English) Tithe Act, 1839 (2 & 3Vict. c. 62). Also, a place for the reception of the bodies of persons who have died of infectious disease, etc., to which such bodies may, in

Xenodochy

Xenodochy [fr. xenodocia, Gk.], reception of strangers; hospitality, Encyc. Londin.

Petition

There are several regulations respecting petitions to Parliament, which, if neglected in any one parti-cular, will prevent their reception. For instance, signatures or marks must be original, not copies nor signatures of agents on behalf of others;

Post office

used for the purposes of the Post Office, and every letter-box provided by the Post Office for the reception of postal articles. [(Indian) Post Office Act, 1898 (6 of 1898), s. 2(h)] The Government service of the

Reward

and with the consent of the Attorney-General. As to notice to be given to the local authority of reception, death or removal of infants kept for reward, see (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1932, ss. 65

Summer-hus silver

used to visit those places in summer, when their under-tenants were bound to prepare little summer-houses for their reception, or else pay a composition in money, Custumale de Newington jurta Sittingburn, M.S.

Telegraph

Telegraph, means any appliance, instrument, material or apparatus used or capable of use for transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, visual or other electro-magnetic

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