Saw Set - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: saw setSaw set
An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade to prevent friction called also saw wrest...
Saw wrest
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Bow saw
A saw with a thin or narrow blade set in a strong frame...
Circular saw
Circular saw, is a machine intended for sawing wood by means of a circular blade, exceeding 300 millimetres in diameter, in a fixed or portable bench or frame, but does not include a swing or other saw which is operated by movement towards the wood, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 918, p. 552 [Agriculture (Circular Saws) Regulations 1959, reg. 2(1) (UK)]....
Quarter saw
To saw a log into quarters specif to saw into quarters and then into boards as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously...
saw
saw See Special Agricultural Worker. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Crown saw
A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder with teeth on the end or edge and operated by a rotative motion...
Saw toothed
Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw serrate...
Setting
The act of one who or that which sets as the setting of type or of gems the setting of the sun the setting hardening of moist plaster of Paris the setting set of a current...
Set-off
Set-off, any counter-balance or cross-claim.A defendant's counter demand against the plaintiff, arising out of transaction independent of plaintiff's claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1376.The subject of a set-off under the former practice was a cross debt or claim, on which a separate action might be sustained, due to the party defendant from the party plaintiff. It was a defence crated by 2 Geo.2, c. 22, and had no existence at Common Law, and could only be pleaded in respect of mutual debts of a definite character, and did not apply to a claim founded in damages, or in the nature o a penalty, and the debt must have been due in the same right and between the same parties, and not a mere equitable demand. The defendant could not avail himself of a set-off, unless it were specially pleaded, and particulars thereof delivered with the plea.It is now provided by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 3, that a defendant in an action may set off or set up, by way of counter-claim a...
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