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Having a recess or recesses as a recessed arch or wall...
recess
recess : a temporary adjournment of a trial, hearing, or legislative session recess vb ...
Recess
Recess, is also called the inter-session period, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 183.Recess, the period between two sessions of Parlia-ment i.e., between a prorogation of Parliament and the opening of a new session, as distinct from the period between a dissolution and the calling of a new Parliament. Office of the Speaker in the Parlia-ments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 634....
Recess
A withdrawing or retiring a moving back retreat as the recess of the tides...
Ordinance during recess of Parliament
Ordinance during recess of Parliament, see Constitution of India, Art. 123....
Recession
Recession, a re-grant.A period charaterized by a sharp slowdown an economic activity declining employment and a decrease in investment and consumer spending, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Reliction
A leaving dry a recession of the sea or other water leaving dry land land left uncovered by such recession...
Chiltern hundreds
Chiltern hundreds. A member of the House of Commons cannot resign his seat. He may, however, become disqualified by acceptance of an office of profit under the Crown. A member therefore usually vacates his seat by the acceptance of the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, or some other nominal office in the gift of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The practice began about the year 1750; but the duties and profits of the stewardship have long since ceased, and the office is only retained to serve this particular purpose. The Chiltern Hills, a range of chalk eminences separating the counties of Bedford and Hertford, were formerly covered with thick beechwood, and sheltered numerous robbers; to put these marauders down, and protect the inhabitants of the neighbourhood from their depredations, an officer was appointed under the Crown called the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, which were Burnham, Desborough and Stoke.The Crown, for the convenience of the House at large, is ordinarily rea...
Reliction
Reliction, the sudden recession of the sea from land. See DERELICT LANDS.A process by which a river or stream shifts its location, causing recession of water from its bank, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn...
accretion
accretion 1 : the process or a result of growth or enlargement: as a : the increase or extension of the boundaries of land or the consequent acquisition of land accruing to the owner by the gradual or imperceptible action of natural forces (as by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark) ;also : accession in which the boundaries of land are enlarged by this process compare avulsion, reliction b : increase in the amount or extent of any kind of property or in the value of any property [s to a trust fund resulting from the increase in value of…securities in which its corpus is invested "In re Estate of Gartenlaub, 244 P. 348 (1926)"] NOTE: Accretion in value of the principal of a trust is generally not considered income. c : enlargement of a bargaining unit by the addition of new employees 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : the passing to an heir or conjoint legatee of the right to accept a porti...
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