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Device used to measure the position, speed and direction of an object. Usually used by police to determine the speed of motor vehicles for the purposes of measuring speed and violations of speed limit laws. … [Read more...] about RADAR

(adjective) - In English law. Excessive ; too large in amount; as a rank modus, 2 BL Comm. 30.(noun) - The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army and navy, in relation to others. Wood v. U. S.f 15 Ct. CI. 158. … [Read more...] about RANK

See Race Act except this act allows the first filer to have a precedence of interest over second filers only if the first filer is unaware of other unrecorded claims to the property. … [Read more...] about RACE NOTICE ACT

A political party. The term arose in England, in 1818, when te popular leaders, Hunt Cartwright, and others, sought to obtain a radical reform In the representative system of parliament. Bolingbroke (Disc. Parties, Let. 18) employs the term in Its present accepted sense: "Such a remedy might have wrought a radical cure of the evil that threatens our constitution," etc. Wharton. … [Read more...] about RADICALS

In Scotland this term is used to signify the order in which the debts of a bankrupt ought to be paid. … [Read more...] about RANKING