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frameshift

frame to be correctly translated into protein in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in

Burden of proof

second sense, the burden of introducing evidence. The essential distinction between these two is that the former never shifts and remains throughout the entire case, while the latter shifts from time to time as the case proceeds.

nuclear magnetic resonance

and the local chemical environment in which the nucleus resides It is the latter effect called the chemical shift by which atoms of specific elements in different chemical compounds show a different resonance frequency which gives rise

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Prog

about and beg to seek food or other supplies by low arts to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks

Quirk

A sudden turn a starting from the point or line hence an artful evasion or subterfuge a shift a quibble as the quirks of a pettifogger

Smock

A womans under garment a shift a chemise

Mortmain

land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2

Impleder

procedure by which a third party is brought into a lawsuit, esp., by a defendant who seeks to shift liability to someone not sued by the plaintiff, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 757.

Contingent remainder

taking effect in all respects as if the contingent remainder had originally been created as a springing or shifting use or executory devise or other executory limitation. Contingent remainders are subject to the rule against perpetuities [Re

Secondary use

Secondary use, a use limited to take effect in derogation of a preceding estate; otherwise called a shifting use, as a conveyance to the use of A. and his heirs, with a proviso that when B.

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