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Setter

One who or that which sets used mostly in composition with a noun as typesetter or in combination with an adverb as a setter on or inciter a setter up a setter forth...


Griffon

One of a European breed of rough coated dogs somewhat taller than the setter and of a grizzly liver color They are used in hunting game birds The Brussels griffon is a very small wiry coated short nosed pet dog of Belgian origin...


jet setter

a member of the jet set...


Setterwort

The bears foot Helleborus foeligtidus so called because the root was used in settering or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle Called also pegroots...


Abet

Abet [from a (ad vel usque), and bedan, or beteren, to stir up or excite, Sax.], to maintain or patronise: to encourage or set on. The act is called abetment. An abettor or abettator is an instigator or setter on, one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed, Old Nat. Br. 21. See ACCESSARY.With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (1)]Defined. (Abetment of a thing.-A person abets the doing of a thing, who-First.-Instigates any person to do that thing; orSecondly.-Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; orThirdly.-Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal o...


Medical practitioners

Medical practitioners. The term is applied to physicians and surgeons. By s. 32 of the (English) Medical Act, 1858, only a registered medical practitioner can sue for his charges, and by s. 6 of the (English) Medical Act, 1886, a fellow of a College of Physicians may be prohibited by bye-law of the College from suing; and such bye-law has been passed. It is an offence for any person falsely to pretend that he holds a medical or surgical qualification (s. 40, Act of 1858), but it is not an offence merely to practise surgery or medicine, see Whitwell v. Shakerly, (1932) 147 LT 157 (bone-setter, osteopathic physician and surgeon). The registration of medical men in controlled by the Medical Council. See GENERAL COUNCIL, and Medical Acts of 1858, 1859, 1860, 1876, 1886 and 1905. The College of Physicians, with other bodies, was empowered to grant qualifications of registration to women by the Medical Act, 1876 ('Russell Gurney's Act'). See also APOTHECARIES....


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