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Militia

Militia, the national soldiery, as distinguished from the regular forces or standing army, being the inhabitants, or, as they have been sometimes called, the trained bands of a town or county, who are armed on a short notice for their own defence. as to its origin see Hall, Cons. Hist. iii. p. 259. The statutes on this subject make service compulsory upon all men between eighteen and thirty, who are to be selected by ballot (23 & 24 Vict. c. 120, s. 7), with exceptions for peers, clergymen, articled clerks, officers on half pay, apprentices, poor men having more than one child born in wedlock and other persons (42 Geo. 3, c. 90, s. 43); but by Acts dating from 10 Geo. 4, c. 10, the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments for the Militia were from time to time suspended.Finally in 1865, by the (English) Militia (Ballot Suspension) Act, 1865--a temporary Act, continued annually from time to time by successive Expiring Laws Continuance Acts--these statutes were suspended, subject t...

Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...

Ampere

Ampere, means a unit of electric current and is the unvarying electric current which when passed through a solution of nitrate of silver in water, in accordance with the specification set out in Annexure I, deposits silver at the rate of 0.001118 of a gramme per second; the aforesaid unit is equivalent to the current which, in passing through the suspended coil of wire forming part of the instrument marked 'Government of India Ampere Standard Verified' when the suspended coil is in its sighted position, exerts a force which is exactly balanced by the force exerted by gravity in Calcutta on the counter balancing iridio-platinum weight of the said instrument. [Indian Electricity Rules, 1956, s. 2 (1) (c)]...

Gallows

A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top also a like frame for suspending anything...

suspension

suspension : the act of suspending : the state or period of being suspended [the of an employee] ...

supersede

supersede -sed·ed -sed·ing 1 : to subject to postponement or suspension ;esp : to suspend the operation of (a judgment or order) by means of a supersedeas 2 : to take the place of in authority : preempt override 3 : to take the place of and render null or ineffective ...

caveat

caveat [Latin, may he/she beware] 1 a : a warning enjoining one from certain acts or practices b : an explanation to prevent a misinterpretation 2 : a notice to a court or judicial officer to suspend a proceeding until the opposition can be heard [a entered in the probate court to stop the proving of the will] caveat vb ...

Hang

To suspend to fasten to some elevated point without support from below often used with up or out as to hang a coat on a hook to hang up a sign to hang out a banner...

hang

hang hung also: hanged hang·ing vt : to suspend by the neck until dead esp. as a form of execution often hanged in the past tense vi 1 : to die by hanging often hanged in the past tense [he ed for his crimes] 2 : to be unable to reach a decision or verdict [the jury hung on 19 counts against [him] "Randall Samborn"] ...

stay

stay stayed stay·ing : to temporarily suspend or prevent by judicial or executive order [may not grant an injunction to proceedings in a state court "U.S. Code"] n : a temporary suspension or injunction of an action or process by a usually discretionary judicial or executive order [a of execution of the judgment] [ of a lower court's judgment pending certiorari "W. J. Brennan, Jr."] see also automatic stay compare cease-and-desist order at order, mandamus, supersedeas ...

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