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Ringing the changes, a trick practised by a criminal, by which, on receiving a good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to have five apricots for sixpence, gave him a good shilling to change. The prisoner put the shilling into his mouth, as if to test it by biting, and returning a shilling, said it was a bad one. The buyer gave him a second, which he treated like the first, and returned with the same words, and so with a third shilling. The shillings he returned being bad, this was an uttering of false money, 1 Russ. On Cr., 5th Edn. 231.fraud consisting in offender's using a large banknote to pay for a small purchase; waiting for shopkeeper to put change on counter and then, by a series of maneuvers involving change of mind, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1327....
change ringing
ringing tuned bells in a fixed order that is continually changing See change9 n...
Ring-dropping
Ring-dropping, a trick variously practised. One mode is as follows, the circumstances being taken from Patch's case, 2 East, P.C. 678:-The prisoner, with accomplices, being with their victim, pretends to find a ring wrapt in paper, appearing to be a jeweller's receipt for a 'rich brilliant diamond ring.' They offer to leave the ring with the victim if he will deposit some money and his watch as a security. He lays his watch and money, is beckoned out of the room by one of the confederates, while the others take away his watch, etc. This is a larceny. See further 2 Russ. On Cr....
Piston ring
A spring packing ring or any of several such rings for a piston...
Ringed
Encircled or marked with or as with a ring or rings...
Wedding-rings
Wedding-rings. As to the assaying and marking of gold wedding-rings, see 18 & 19 Vict. c. 60, s. 1....
Changed Circumstances
Changed Circumstances, what the words ' 'changed circumstances' mean is the change in circumstances due to transfer of power in August 1947 and the coming into force of the Constitution in January 1950, and no more. Therefore when Art. 314 speaks of 'rights as similar thereto as changed circumstance may permit', it only means that a member of the former Secretary of State's Services would have rights similar to his pre-existing rights as the changed circumstances resulting from constitutional changes may allow, R.P. Kapur v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 787 (791): (1964) 5 SCR 431. [Constitution of India, Art. 314]...
Bearing ring
In a balloon the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom functionally analogous to the keel of a ship...
Nobilis rings
Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper lead peroxide etc They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate...
Ring
To cause to sound especially by striking as a metallic body as to ring a bell...
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