Search results for: “military base”
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Peculiar
While the word sometimes has an offensive meaning, its natural and usual meaning is particular or special. St. Louis M.& S.E.R. Co. v Continental Brick Co., 96 S. W. 1011, 198 Mo. 698.
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Cashier
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Cashier Meaning of Cashier The business officer of a bank but only in the sense of one who transacts and not one who regulates or controls the affairs. As has been quaintly said he is the hands of the […]
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Commission
An authority to do some act, such as the authority of an agent to enter into a contract or the authority of an officer to hold the office or title . An amount payable to an agent upon the agent performing the act contracted for. Usually expressed in terms of a percentage , but […]
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Tenant
One who holds, uses or enjoys the property of another with his consent or by his permission or letting. In a narrower but more popular sense, a lessee . In order to constitute a tenant in the sense of a lessee, he must be in possession under a lease , written or oral, express or…
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Miles
In Civil Law. A soldier. Vel a militia, aut a multitudine, aut a numero, mille hominum. Vocat. In Old English Law. A knight, because military service was part of the feudal tenure. Also, a tenant by military service, not a knight. 1 Bl. Comm. 404; Seld. […]
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Capture
The taking of property by one belligerent from another. See 6 Allen (Mass.) 373. It is a taking by the military power, as distinguished from a taking by the civil power, which is known as seizure. 35 Ga. 344. It originally included only a taking by one belligerent from […]
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Army
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Army Meaning of Army The military forces of a nation intended for service on land. It does not include the marine corps. 2 Sawy. (U.S.) 200; 21 N. Y. Supp. 104. Contra, 7 Rob. (N. Y.) 635. As used in the […]
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Assault Weapon
A semiautomatic firearm (see this wordreference; there are information on firearms collector, firearms source, firearms pathfinder and firearms database on the internet) with a large-capacity magazine and special features common to military weapons.
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Intervention
(Lat. intervenio, to come between or among). In Civil Law. The act by which a third party becomes a party in a suit pending between other persons. The intervention is made either to be joined to the plaintiff, and to claim the same thing he does, or some other thing connected with it; or […]
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Office
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Office Meaning of Office A position of duty, trust or authority especially in the public service or in some corporation , society or the like. there is also a corresponding right to exercise the public […]
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Office
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Office Meaning of Office A position of duty, trust or authority especially in the public service or in some corporation , society or the like. there is also a corresponding right to exercise the public […]
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Gantelope
A military punishment, in which the criminal running between the ranks receive? a lash from each man. Enc. Lond. This was called running the gauntlett, the word itself being pronounced gauntlett. …