in ordinary use

  • 1ordinary use of highway — Use by motor vehicles, such having almost completely supplanted horse drawn vehicles. 25 Am J2d High § 430. In the absence of a specific regulation to the contrary, a bicycle is a vehicle of such nature that it properly may be used upon the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 2ordinary — or·di·nary adj: of a kind to be expected from the average person or in the normal course of events; broadly: of a common kind or degree an ordinary proceeding compare extraordinary Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 3use — 1 / yüs/ n 1 a: an arrangement in which property is granted to another with the trust and confidence that the grantor or another is entitled to the beneficial enjoyment of it see also trust; statute of uses in the important laws section ◇ Uses… …

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  • 4use — verb To make use of; to convert to one s service; to employ; to avail oneself of; to utilize; to carry out a purpose or action by means of; to put into action or service, especially to attain an end. State v. Howard, 221 Kan. 51, 557 P.2d 1280,… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 5ordinary travel — See ordinary use of highway …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 6Ordinary — Or di*na*ry, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} ( r[i^]z). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 7Ordinary of the Mass — Ordinary Or di*na*ry, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} ( r[i^]z). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 8Use of Wealth —     Use of Wealth     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Use of Wealth     The term wealth is not used here in the technical sense in which it occurs in treatises on economic subjects, but rather in its common acceptation, synonymous with riches. The… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 9Ordinary watercourse — Ordinary watercourses are a statutory type of watercourse in England and Wales. Ordinary watercourses include every river, stream, ditch, drain, cut, dyke, sluice, sewer (other than a public sewer) and passage through which water flows and which… …

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  • 10Use — Use, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use. See {Use}, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one s service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment;… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English