Rim Fire - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rim fireRim fire
Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base distinguished from center fire said of cartridges also using rim fire cartridges as a rim fire gun Such cartridges are now little used...
Fire
Fire. No action for damages lies against any person in whose house, etc., a fire shall accidentally begin: Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, which s. and s. 83 are the only unrepealed sections of the Act.To discharge or dismiss a person from employment; to terminate as employee. Black's Law 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 the (English) Metropolis by the Fire Brigade Act, 1865, and in parishes by the (English) Parish Fire Engines Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 38), and the Acts therein recited.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 into premises and regulating traffic upon the out break of a fir...
Rim
The border edge or margin of a thing usually of something circular or curving as the rim of a kettle or basin...
Fire prevention and fire safety measures
Fire prevention and fire safety measures, s. 2(g) 'fire prevention and fire safety measures' means such measures as are necessary in accordance with the building bye-laws for the prevention, control and fighting of fire and for ensuring the safety of life and property in case of fire. [Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986 (56 of 1986), s. 2(g)]...
Fire brigade
Fire brigade. The (English) Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act, 1855 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 90), intrusts to the London County Council, which has superseded the Metropolitan Board of Works, the duty of extinguishing fires in the metropolis. On the occasion of a fire the chief officer of the fire brigade may take any measures that appear expedient for the protection of life and property by s. 12 of the Act; and in other districts by s. 89 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53). Motors used for fire-brigade purposes are exempt from the duty on licences for motor-cars....
Accidental fire
Accidental fire. By the (English) Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1774 (14 Geo. 3, c. 78), s. 86, no action shall be prosecuted against any person in whose house, chamber, stable, barn, or other building, or on whose estate any fire shall accidentally begin; but nothing herein contained shall defeat any contract or agreement made between landlord and tenant. The statute will not protect tenants from the consequences of fires caused by their negligence.Accidental fire is not an act of God which can be traced to natural causes, Patel Roadways Ltd. v. Birla Yamaha Ltd., (2000) 4 SCC 91....
Precaution against fire
Precaution against fire, means precautions against the occurrence or outbreak of fire, and the words would not in their literal interpretation, cover pre-cautions against the consequence of fire, Emperor v. Hussain Ibrahim, AIR 1943 Bom 5: (1943) ILR Bom 92....
fire hydrant
an upright hydrant that can supply large volumes of water to use in fighting a fire They are commonly placed at intervals at the street edge of a sidewalk spaced for convenience in suppressing fires in towns...
Pin fire
Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge as a pin fire rifle...
Fire-plugs
Fire-plugs. As to the duty of urban authorities to provide fire-plugs, see (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c.55), s. 66, and (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), s. 124. As to the like duty of undertakers of waterworks, see (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 17), ss. 38-43. As to the metropolis, see 34 & 35 Vict. c. 113, s. 34....
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