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Finance Acts

Finance Acts. In and after 1894 the Annual Taxing Acts, which had for a long time borne the short titles...

Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of...

Code, a collection or system of laws. The collection of laws and constitutions made by order of the Emperor Justinian...

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Attempt to commit crime, an attempt to commit an offence is an act, or a series of acts, which leads...

Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail They belong to...

To make too small or short to limit or straiten to put on short allowance to scant to contract to...

Fat and short breathed fat short and thick swelled with pampering as pursy insolence

Short and fat or sturdy dumpy podgy as a short pudgy little man a pudgy little hand

A foot consisting of four syllables either two long and two short that is a spondee and a pyrrhic in...

Short winged applied to birds which can not fly owing to their short wings as the ostrich cassowary and emu

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