Right Hand - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: right handRight hand
Situated or being on the right nearer the right hand than the left as the right hand side room or road...
Right handed
Using the right hand habitually or more easily than the left...
Amputation of right hand
Amputation of right hand, an ancient punishment for a blow given in a Superior Court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the Court. it was also inflicted by the Star Chamber for duelling or striking a blow within the precincts of a royal palace...
Right handedness
The state or quality of being right handed hence skill dexterity...
Left handed
Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right...
Dextrality
The state of being on the right hand side also the quality of being right handed right handedness...
Left hand
Situated on the left nearer the left hand than the right as the left hand side the left hand road...
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
Dextrorotatory
Turning or causing to turn toward the right hand esp turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand as dextrorotatory crystals sugars etc Cf Levorotatory...
cloverleaf
a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four leaf clover and which allows moving from one road to another without left hand turns One road passes over the other and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right hand lane in all directions...
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