To give one law. A sporting term, meaning the chance of saving oneself. Thus a hare or a stag is allowed “law” —i.e. a certain start before any bound is permitted to attack it; and a…
(Encyclopedia) code, in law, in its widest sense any body of legal rules expressed in fixed and authoritative written form. A statute thus may be termed a code. Codes contrast with customary law (…
(Encyclopedia) periodic law, statement of a periodic recurrence of chemical and physical properties of the elements when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. Such an…
(Encyclopedia) Percy, Sir Henry, 1366–1403, English nobleman, called Hotspur or Henry Hotspur; son of Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland. In 1388 he participated in the famous battle of…
(Encyclopedia) distributive law. In mathematics, given any two operations, symbolized by * and ∘, the first operation, *, is distributive over the second, ∘, if a*(b∘c)=(a*b)∘(a*c) for all possible…
MONTGOMERY John Gallagher , a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born in Northumberland, Northumberland County, Pa., June 27, 1805;
studied under a private tutor;
was graduated from Washington (…
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