While “shave” is sometimes used to denote the act of obtaining the property of another by oppression aud extortion, it may be used in an innocent sense to denote the […]

In old English law . A wood. Co. Litt 46.

Soldiers. Cowell.

j A riding, tithing, or division in the Isle of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief […]

The strain that is produced when an objects layers are being subjected to forces in opposition to each other.

A wether more than a year old. Rex v. Birket 4 Car. & P. 216.

Small plots of pasture, in England, often in the middle of the waste of a manor, of which the soil may or may not be in the lord, but the […]

A service turned into money, which was paid in respect that an- ciently the tenants used to wash the lord’s sheep. Wharton.

A deed; so called from the parchment it was written on.

A right of sheep-walk is the same thing as a fold-course , (g. v.) Elton, Commons, 44.

A solid material that is sold in flat sheets of different sizes and not in rolls or coils.

A company ready-made that fulfills all of the requirements for a legal registration . It can be sold on an dboight by any body.

1. Time where goods are still effective and have not deteriorated. See storage life and expiration date . 2. The time an item is expected to stay in inventory counts. […]

A regulation imposed by the securities and exchange commission that allows securities to be registered once every two years causing advance registration of securities. AKA rule 415 registration.

A card or sign that brings products to the attention of the customer. Also known as a shelf screamer.

The number in days or hours that a product or item will remain on the shelf of a supermarket .

A part or a layer that is part of a computer operating syste. Seving as the user interface . See kernel.

A firm that does not trade formed to raise funds , attempt the take over, go public or as the front for an illegal venture. See shelf company .

“When the ancestor, by any gift or conveyance, tak- eth an estate of freehold , and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited, either mediately or immediately […]

A court held before the lord warden of the Cinque Ports . A writ of error lay from the mayor and Jurats of each port to the lord warden in […]

The body of the lordship of Cajrdiff in South Wales, excluding the members of it Powel, Hist. Wales, 123.

In American law . The chief executive and administrative officer of a county, being chosen by popular election SHERIFF 1083

the person who is appointed by the sheriff to help him in his work or to aid him in a certain task.

The time of a man’s being sheriff. Cowell. The term of a sheriff’s office.

The jurisdiction of a sheriff. Called, in modern law, “bailiwick.” The office of a sheriff.