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Home Dictionary Name: sixSix shooter
A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially a six chambered revolver...
Six Articles, Law of
Six Articles, Law of, (English) made in 1539 by 31 Hen. 8, c. 14. This famous Act was styled 'An Act for abolishing Diversity of Opinions,' and it enforced conformity to six of the strongest points in the Romish religion (being the real presence, communion in one kind for the laity, celibacy of the clergy, sanctity of vows, private masses, and auricular confession), under the penalty of death in case of offence, amended by 32 Hen. 8, c. 10, which required conviction to be on the oath of twelve men, and repealed by 1 Eliz. c. 1, 4 Reeves, 278....
Six
One more than five twice three as six yards...
Six footer
One who is six feet tall...
Six Acts
Six Acts (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, cc. 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9), passed to put down seditious meetings, etc.; of these, c. 1, the Unlawful Drilling Act, 1819; c. 4, the Pleading in Misdemeanour Act, 1819; and c. 8, the Criminal Libel Act, 1819, are still unrepealed...
Six Clerks in Chancery
Six Clerks in Chancery, officers who received and filed all proceedings, signed office copies, attended Court to read the pleadings, etc. they were abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 103....
Six day licence
Six day licence, a liquor licence containing a condition that the premises in respect of which it is granted shall be closed during the whole of Sunday-granted under Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, s. 58....
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
Hexagonal
Having six sides and six angles six sided...
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