Strip - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: stripcomic strip
a brief sequence of drawings usually with characters drawn only sketchily as in a cartoon with dialog written in ldquoballoonsrdquo over a characters head and depicting a fictional and usually comical incident also called a cartoon Each comic strip contains typically from four to six panels arranged horizontally but widely varying arrangements are published In modern newspapers weekly comic strips are in color and daily strips are usually in black and white In some the story depicted may be serialized and continuous carried over from day to day or week to week Stories of adventure drama mystery or an otherwise non comical nature depicted in the same style are also called comic strips...
STRIP
STRIP pl: STRIPs [separate trading of registered interest and principal of securities] : a Treasury security that entitles the investor usually to payment of interest or principal exclusively and that is registered in a Federal Reserve bank under a federal program that provides for such separate trading of the components of U.S. Treasury obligations compare zero-coupon bond at bond ...
stripped mbs (smbs)
stripped mbs (smbs) securities created by "stripping" or separating the principal and interest payments from the underlying pool of mortgages into two classes of securities, with each receiving a different proportion of the principal and interest payments. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
strip search
strip search see search ...
strip search
strip search see search ...
Air strip
Air strip, means an area used or intended to be used for the landing and take-off of aircraft's with short take-off and landing characteristics and includes all buildings and structures thereon or appertaining thereto. [Airports Authority of India Act, (55 of 1994), s. 2(c)]...
Skelp and strips
Skelp and strips, See, Union of India v. Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., AIR 1975 SC 769 (771). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Schedule I, Item 26AA(iii)]...
Free-board, or freebord
Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be ofthe nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept free, open and unbuilt upon. Cowel (Law Dict.) has the following: 'Free-board, Francbordus, in some places they claim as a Free-bord, more or less ground beyond or without the fence. In Mon. Angl. 2 par. Fol. 241, it is said to contain two foot and a half.' He then quotes the passage from Dugdale, but inaccurately, the correct reading being as follows: Et totum boscum quod vocatur Brendewode, cum frankbordo duorum pedum et dimidium, per circuitum illius bosci, etc.; see Dugd. Mon., Edn. Caley Ellis & Bandinel, vol. vi. P. 375. Du Cange simply says, 'Francbordus A...
Excortication
The act of stripping off bark or the state of being thus stripped decortication...
Lath
A thin narrow strip of wood nailed to the rafters studs or floor beams of a building for the purpose of supporting the tiles plastering etc A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used...
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