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Slidometer

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping

Court-leet

the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493. The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be

slip carriage

a railway car at the end of the train it can be detached without stopping the train

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Sluice

An artifical passage for water fitted with a valve or gate as in a mill stream for stopping or regulating the flow also a water gate or flood gate

Brought in transit

it is not engaged in relevant activity and passes through or above Indian territorial waters or airspace without stopping or anchoring in India. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005

Chalking, or Caulking

Chalking, or Caulking, stopping the seams in a ship or vessel, Rot. Parl., 50 Edw. 3.

Cheque

775; and Lloyds Bank, Ltd. v. Savory & Co., (1933) 49 TLR 116. As to the effect of stopping a cheque, see Cohen v. Hale, (1878) 3 !. BD 371; and of alteration, Slingsby v. District Bank,

Contract carriage

one point to another. [The Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 2 (7) (b)] And in either case, without stopping to pick up or set down passengers not included in the contract anywhere during the journey, and includes:

Deed

language employed should be sufficient in point of law, intelligible without punctuation, and clear without the aid of stops or parentheses. Usage has arranged the text of a conveyance inter partes in a formal and well-understood sequence;

Hackney carriage or cab

A Cab is not plying for hire when cruising whilst displaying a 'for hire' sign unless the driver stops when hailed, see Hunt v. Morgan, (1949) 1 KB 233: (1948) 2 All ER 1065 DC

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