Set Stitched - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: set stitchedSet stitched
Stitched according to a formal pattern...
Cross stitch
A form of stitch where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs the thread of one stitch crossing that of the other...
Lock stitch
A peculiar sort of stitch formed by the locking of two threads together as in the work done by some sewing machines See Stitch...
Blanket stitch
A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material as blankets too thick to hem...
Chain stitch
An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain used in crocheting sewing and embroidery...
Garter stitch
The simplest stitch in knitting...
hemming stitch
a stitch used in sewing hems on skirts and dresses...
slip stitch
loose stitch catching only a thread or two of fabric designed to be invisible from the right side...
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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