Number seventy-two
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 78 U.S. 516 - Seymour v. Osborne · 1870Most cited · 835 citing opinions
constructing the platform of a reaping machine, upon which the cut grain falls as it is cut, in the shape of a quadrant, or of a sector of a circle, placed just behind the cutting apparatus, and in such relation to the main frame that the grain, whether raked off by hand or by machinery located behind the cutting apparatus, can be swept around on the arc of a circle and be dropped, heads foremost, on the ground far enough from the standing grain to leave
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