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square : fitting the factual or legal situation at bar [we have been shown no holding of a Florida court to that effect "Milhet Caterers, Inc. v. North Western Meat, Inc., 185 So. 2d 196 (1966)"] square·ly adv ...
Square
Square, means fitting the factual or legal situation at bar, Mihet Caterers, Inc. v. North Western Meat, Inc., 185 So 2d 196 (1966)....
Acre
Acre [fr. aypos, Gr.; ager, Lat.; acker, Germ.], a measure of land. The extent of the acre was first defined by statute in the 33 Edw. I., according to which an acre contains 160 square perches, the then perch being 5' yards. See Blount's Law Dict. The imperial or standard English acre contains 4 roods, each rood 40 poles or perches, each pole 272' square feet, and consequently each acre = 43,560 square feet or 4,840 square yards. See (English) Weights and Measures Act, 1878. The French acre, arpent, contains 1' English acres, or 54,450 square English feet. The Welsh acre contains commonly 2 English acres. The Irish acre is equal to 7,840 square yards; the Scots to 6,150-2/5 square yards....
Street
Street, as appearing in different provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act is to be read in the wider sense and not to be treated only as a lane. Parking place attached to road is also covered, Harpal Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1992 P&H 314. [Land Acquisition Act (1 of 1894), ss. 5A, 17; Punjab Municipal Act (3 of 1911), s. 58]Street, in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), by s. 343, includes any highway, including a highway over any bridge, and any road, lane, footway, square, Court, alley or passage, whether a thoroughfare or not; and see A.G. v. Laird, 1925 C 318.Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley or passage in a cantonment, whether a thoroughfare or not and whether built upon or not, over which the public have a right-of-way and also the road-way or foot-way over any bridge or cause way. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2(xxxvii)]Includes any way, road, lane, square, court, alley, passage or open space, whether a thoroughfare ...
Biquadrate
The fourth power or the square of the square Thus 4x416 the square of 4 and 16x16256 the biquadrate of 4...
Planning
Planning, as that term is used in connection with community development is a generic term, rather than a word of art, and has no fixed meaning. Broadly speaking, however, the term connotes the systematic development of a community or an area with particular reference to the location, character, and extent of streets, squares, and parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, American Jurisprudence, 2nd (Vol. 82, at p. 388).Planning, connotes a systematic development contrived to promote the common interest in matters, embraced within the police power, with particular reference to the localities, character, and extent of streets, squares, parks, and to kindred mapping and charting, Manaklal Chottebai v. M.G. Makwana, (1968) 1 SCJ 379.Laws dealing with development planning are indis-pensable to sanitation and healthy urbanization. Development planning comprehensively takes care of statutory, manual, administrative and land-use laws hand in hand with architectural creativity. In the words o...
Broadway
a street in Manhattan famous for its restaurants and its theaters in the Times Square area At its intersection with Seventh Avenue it forms Times Square an area with impressive displays of bright lights particularly advertising it is considered by some to be the cultural center of New York City...
Centare
A measure of area the hundredth part of an are one square meter or about 115 square yards...
Platoon
Formerly a body of men who fired together also a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square...
Quadrature
The act of squaring the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure as the quadrature of a circle the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line as by a curve two ordinates and the axis of abscissas...
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