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Spring guns. The setting of spring guns, etc., calculated to destroy life or inflict grievous bodily harm on a trespasser, is a misdemeanour, Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 31. Damages are recoverable by a person injured by a spring gun, set without notice, from the person setting it, Bird v. Holbrook, (1828) 4 Bing 628....
Gun
Gun. The Gun Licence Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 57), in which 'gun' includes a firearm of any descrip-tion and an air-gun or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged,' grants to the Crown 'for every licence to be taken out yearly by every person who shall use or carry a gun in the United Kingdom the sum of 10s.' By s. 6 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883, licences expire on July 31st after date. Licences are registered by the inland revenue officers who grant them, and must be produced to such officers on demand. For using a gun without licence except in a dwelling-house, the fine is 10l., but there are six exemptions, being of (1) persons in the naval, military, or volunteer service in discharge of their duty; (2) licensees to kill game; (3) persons carrying such licensee's gun, by his order and for his use, and giving his name and address as well as his own on request of inland revenue officer or constable, or owner or occupier of...
Trespasser
Trespasser, referred. [Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (15 of 1882), s. 45]One who commits a trespass. In general a person owes no duty to a trespasser, the rule being that a man trespasses at his own risk, Grand Trunk Railway of Canada v. Barnett, 1911 AC 370; and see Latham v. R. Johnson & Nephew, (1913) 1 KB 398; but an owner of a field upon which to his knowledge the public habitually trespassed was under the circumstances held liable to a trespasser for injuries done to him by a vicious horse which the owner of the field kept there, Lowery v. Walker, 1911 AC 10. A man may be a trespasser even on a highway if he is using it for an improper purpose; see Harrison v. Duke of Rutland, (1893) 1 QB 143; and see SPRING GUNS.Per K. Ramaswamy, J.: A rank trespasser is one who does not stand in any contractual relationship with the owner of the premises. A trespasser is also one who lawfully enters into but unlawfully remains in possession of the property without the consent or acquiescence o...
Springing use
Springing use, a form of use in the nature of an executory interest directing property inland to vest at a future period which does not coincide with the termination of a legal estate at common law, for instance. In conveyances before 1926, upon a grant by X. To B. to the use of A. (an infant) in fee attaining twenty-one years of age, the use results to the settlor until, if ever, the period arrives and a good legal estate was conferred upon A. attaining that age by virtue of the statute. The use may be contingent as in that case, or vested, as grant to B. to the use of A. in fee upon the death of C., a stranger. If the grant defeats a previous legal estate and is not capable of being construed as a vested or contingent remainder, it may operate as a shifting use. Springing and shifting uses were resorted to in order to facilitate freedom of grant or conveyance of the legal estate inland by virtue of the Statute of Uses. Grants which would have created springing or shifting uses if the...
Hydropneumatic gun carriage
A disappearing gun carriage in which the recoil is checked by cylinders containing liquid and air the air when compressed furnishing the power for restoring the gun to the firing position It is used with some English and European heavy guns...
Gun
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end in which the projectile is placed with an explosive charge such as guncotton or gunpowder behind which is ignited by various means Pistols rifles carbines muskets and fowling pieces are smaller guns for hand use and are called small arms Larger guns are called cannon ordnance fieldpieces carronades howitzers etc See these terms in the Vocabulary...
Gun-cotton
Gun-cotton. As to the making, sale, etc., of gun-cotton, see the Explosives Act, 1875 and tit. EXPLOSIVES....
riot gun
riot gun : a small arm used to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death ;esp : a short-barreled shotgun ...
Gatling gun
An American machine gun consisting of a cluster of barrels which being revolved by a crank are automatically loaded and fired...
Gunning
The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun...
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