A Technological Dictionary: Explaining the Terms of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Professions, and TradesW. Tegg, 1846 - 755 σελίδες |
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... MENT , from abridge ( of Beaxus , short ) , an epitome ; a summary of a book . In law , shortening a count or declaration ; e . g . in assize , a man is said to abridge his plaint , and a woman her demand in action of dower , if any ...
... MENT , from abridge ( of Beaxus , short ) , an epitome ; a summary of a book . In law , shortening a count or declaration ; e . g . in assize , a man is said to abridge his plaint , and a woman her demand in action of dower , if any ...
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... ment of the same . This must be by express words ; and to charge the drawer with costs in case of non - payment the acceptance must be in writing , under , across , or on the back of the bill . Any- thing tending to show that the party ...
... ment of the same . This must be by express words ; and to charge the drawer with costs in case of non - payment the acceptance must be in writing , under , across , or on the back of the bill . Any- thing tending to show that the party ...
Σελίδα 14
... ment of particular debts and credits : in the plural it is used to denote the books containing such entries . A writ of account , in law , is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account ...
... ment of particular debts and credits : in the plural it is used to denote the books containing such entries . A writ of account , in law , is a writ which the plaintiff brings demanding that the defendant shall render his just account ...
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... ment . In law , the adjustment of shares of something to be divided ; e.g. Admeasure- ment of dower takes place when the widow of the deceased claims more than belongs to her as dower : Admeasurement of pasture takes place when any one ...
... ment . In law , the adjustment of shares of something to be divided ; e.g. Admeasure- ment of dower takes place when the widow of the deceased claims more than belongs to her as dower : Admeasurement of pasture takes place when any one ...
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... med in the dialect of the Koreish , which is the purest Arabie ; but the languages of Arabia have suffered such changes since it was written , that the book is no longer intelligible to the Arabians them- selves , without being studied ...
... med in the dialect of the Koreish , which is the purest Arabie ; but the languages of Arabia have suffered such changes since it was written , that the book is no longer intelligible to the Arabians them- selves , without being studied ...
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Σελίδα 250 - The court-leet, or view of frankpledge,(x) which is a court of record, held once in the year, and not oftener,(^) within a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet: being the king's court, granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors.
Σελίδα 309 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Σελίδα 136 - The person who writes or draws the bill is called the drawer. The person to whom it is addressed is called the drawee.
Σελίδα 156 - Bow, is the rounding part of a ship's side forward, beginning where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow. On the bow, an arch of the horizon, not exceeding 45 degrees.
Σελίδα 153 - Alfred : who, to prevent the rapines and disorders which formerly prevailed in the realm, instituted tithings ; so called from the Saxon, because ten freeholders with their families composed one. These all dwelt together, and were sureties or free pledges to the king for the good behaviour of each other ; and if any offence was committed in their district, they were bound to have the offender forthcoming b.
Σελίδα 227 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Σελίδα 390 - The power or faculty of the mind, by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Σελίδα 36 - affray" is denned to be "the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the people.
Σελίδα 4 - For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and...
Σελίδα 243 - ... when there are four proportionals, and it is inferred, that the excess of the first above the second, is to the second, as the excess of the third above the fourth, is to the fourth.