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Eager in appetite or desire of gratification affected by keen hunger ravenous as an eagle or a lion sharp set...
Sharpness
The quality or condition of being sharp keenness acuteness...
Sharping corn
Sharping corn, a customary gift of corn which, at every Christmas, the farmers in some parts of England give to their smith for sharpening their plough-irons, harrowtines, etc., Blount....
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...
Set up
Set up, means a unit cannot be said to have been set up, unless it is ready to discharge the function for which it is being set up. It is only when the unit has been put into such a shape that it can start functioning as a business or a manufacturing organization that it can be said that the unit has been set up. The word 'set up' in the principal clause is equivalent to the word established, CWT Madras v. RS Cotton Mills, AIR 1967 SC 509: (1967) 1 SCJ 123: (1967) 1 ITJ 1: (1967) 1 Andh WR (SC) 25: (1967) 1 Mad LJ (SC) 25: (1967) 63 ITR 478....
Sets of Exchange, or of Bills
Sets of Exchange, or of Bills. It has been common, from a very early period, for the drawer to draw and deliver to the payee several parts, commonly called a set, of the same bill of exchange, any one part of which being paid, the others are void. This is done to obviate inconveniences from the mislaying or miscarriage of the bill, and to enable the holder to transmit the same by different conveyances to the drawee, so as to ensure the most speedy presentment for acceptance and payment. The general usage in England and America is for the drawer to deliver a set of three parts of a bill to the payee or holder, Byles on Bills.By the Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 71, 'where a bill is drawn in a set, each part of the set being numbered and containing a reference to the other part, the whole of the parts constitute one bill....
Set
To cause to sit to make to assume a specified position or attitude to give site or place to to place to put to fix as to set a house on a stone foundation to set a book on a shelf to set a dish on a table to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end...
pair-or-set clause
pair-or-set clause : a provision in an insurance policy giving the insurer the option in the case of loss of fewer than all items in a set to restore the set to its value before the loss or pay the difference between the value before and after the loss ...
set aside
set aside 1 : to disagree with and overturn (a decision or act of a lower tribunal) upon review : overrule vacate [set aside the decree] 2 : to deprive of legal effect or force : annul void [may set aside the contract] ...
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