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  • or ZEMINDAR. A landhold- ZOLL-VEREIN. A union of German states er in India, who is the responsible collector for uniformity of customs, established in of revenues on behalf of the

  • Span. A water ditch or artificial canal, and particularly one used for purposes of irrigation. See Pico v. Co.limas, 32 Cal. 578.

  • Span. A water commissioner or superintendent or supervisor of an irrigation system. See Pico v. Colimas, 32 Cal. 578.

  • This word ls commonly token in a bad sense, as denoting a separatist from the Church of England or a fanatic. Brown.

  • An untechnical term denoting a witness, on the trial of a cause, who manifests a partiality for the side calling him, and an eager readiness to tell anything which he thinks may be

  • O. Se, Year. "Zeir and day." Bell.

  • In Hindu law. Landkeep-er. An officer who under the Mohammedan government was charged with the financial superintendence of the lands of a district, the protection of the cultivato

  • The term “zero-emission school bus” means a school bus that is certified by the Administrator to have a drivetrain that produces, under any possible operational mode or condition,

  • Zero-emission vehicle.—The term "zero-emission vehicle" means— (A) a zero-emission vehicle as defined in section 88.102–94 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations; or (B

  • The term “zero-net-energy commercial building” means a commercial building that is designed, constructed, and operated to— (A) require a greatly reduced quantity of energy to opera

  • Proceeding by inquiry. Enc. Lond. 1819. It continued until the unification of the German empire, including Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, Hasse- Cassel, Brunswick, an

  • Rogues and vagabonds in the middle ages; from Zlgi, now Circassia.

  • a lack of minority access to the candidate selection process, unresponsiveness of elected officials to minority interests, a tenuous state policy underlying the preference for mult

  • A mineral body, containing so ony, Bavaria, Wiirtemberg, Baden, Hessemuch of the metal of zinc as to be worth Cassel, Brunswick, and Mecklenberg-Strelitz, smelting. Lehigh Z. & I.

  • To strip; lay bare; waste. Estrepamentum, I., Bstrepement: an aggravated waste, to the injury of the reversioner; especially when committed during a suit to recover possession. The

  • A union of German states for uniformity of customs, established, in 1819. It continued until the unification of the German empire, including Prussia. Saxony, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, B

  • zonedefined inU.S. Code

    The term “zone” means a “foreign-trade zone” as provided in this chapter.

  • a pricing method based on geographic divisions or zones, the boundaries of which are entirely drawn by the seller. His delivered price is the same throughout a particular geographi

  • the question whether the interest sought to be protected by the complainant is arguably within the zone of interests to be protected or regulated by the statute or constitutional g

  • A zone of reasonableness exists between maxima and minima within which a carrier is ordinarily free to adjust its charges for itself.

  • All that is required is that the 'obligations or conditions' of employment create the 'zone of special danger' out of which the injury arose.

  • Application of specific rates between certain specific points in one territory to certain specific points in another territory, without special regard to the actual distance.

  • Statutory provisions adopted in some states regulating, ulate, the districts of a city in which certain trades, factories, etc., may be operated, ZUCARIUM (Law Lat.) In old English

  • it must be said before the ordinance can be declared unconstitutional, that such provisions are clearly arbitrary and unreasonable, having no substantial relation to the public hea

  • The governmental power to interfere by zoning regulations with the general rights of the land owner by restricting the character of his use, is not unlimited, and, other questions

  • In the civil law. A measure or quantity of land. Nov. 17, c. 8. As much land as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. Calv. Lex.

  • In the civil law. A weigher; an officer who held or looked to the balance in weighing money between buyer and seller; an officer appointed to determine controversies -about the wei

  • Lat. A liquor or beverage made of wheat or barley. Dig. 33, 6, 9, pr.