* Scrob / Scrawb: a scratch on one's skin ( i. e.: " The cat gave me some scrob, b ' y " falling into disuse in lieu of scratch )

The law therefore gave the railroad what was called " in lieu " lands further west.

The cash income gave farmsteads access to manufactured goods and imported food such as cane sugar from the West Indies in lieu of local maple products.

In its early stages, the Court held the view that interstate commerce was wholly immune from state taxation " in any form ," " even though the same amount of tax should be laid on ( intrastate ) commerce ," This position gave way in time to a less uncompromising but formal approach, according to which, for example, the Court would invalidate a state tax levied on gross receipts from interstate commerce, or upon the " freight carried " in interstate commerce, but would allow a tax merely measured by gross receipts from interstate commerce as long as the tax was formally imposed upon franchises, or "' in lieu of all taxes upon ( the taxpayer's ) property ,'" Dissenting from this formal approach in 1927, Justice Stone remarked that it was " too mechanical, too uncertain in its application, and too remote from actualities, to be of value.

In 1956, on the death of the 4th Marquess ( d. 1951 ), his widow gave the house and grounds, excluding the church, to the National Trust in lieu of death duties.

Accordingly, the state chose to build the unusual Breezewood arrangement in lieu of a direct interchange, thus qualifying for federal funds because this arrangement gave drivers the option of continuing on the untolled US 30.

In 1788 he succeeded to the Pierrepont estates and assumed the same year by Royal sign manual the surname of Pierrepont in lieu of Medows.

-1 km-Advance directional sign ( map type ) or gantry in lieu

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Sign language is mentioned in the South African constitution, and the South African Schools Act permits the study of sign language in lieu of an official language studied at school.

Similarly, when an applicant refuses to sign an application for Social Security number on religious grounds, Security Administration personnel may sign in lieu of the applicant.

In lieu of the traditional Greek letter organizations, Harding sponsors student-led " social clubs " that serve a similar social networking function to the Greek system.

In time, the town's name metamorphosed into Dupax, after the arrival of the Spaniards who, for convenience, substituted the letter " x " in lieu of letter " j " for easy pronunciation.

Latin characters are used for online communication, using French phonology and inserting numbers in lieu of diacritics as signifiers of non-Latin phonemes ( e. g., by using number 9 to show the letter " qaf ").

In time, the town's name metamorphosed into Dupax, after the arrival of the Spaniards who, for convenience, substituted the letter " x " in lieu of letter " j " for easy pronunciation.

Meaningful policies include: ( A ) kinds of cars the state should own, ( B ) when cars should be traded, ( C ) the need and assignment of vehicles, ( D ) use of cars in lieu of mileage allowances, ( E ) employees taking cars home, and ( F ) need for liability insurance on state automobiles.

Nineteen states report laws, policies or regulations for assigning state vehicles in lieu of paying mileage allowances.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

`` Tailin' '' was the throwin' of an animal by the tail in lieu of a rope.

At the time of her divorce Forbes had promised to pay her a lump sum in lieu of further alimony if she remarried.

In lieu of " Hamito-Semitic ", the Russian linguist Igor Diakonoff later suggested the term " Afrasian ", meaning " half African, half Asiatic ", in reference to the geographic distribution of the phylum's constituent languages.

Additionally, the keyboard and high score cartridge were canceled, the expansion port was removed from later production runs of the system and, in lieu of new titles, the system was launched with titles intended for the 7800's debut in 1984.

Following ( or in lieu of ) a hospital admission, support services available can include drop-in centers, visits from members of a community mental health team or Assertive Community Treatment team, supported employment and patient-led support groups, intensive outpatient programs.

BBC World News and World Business Report air at 5. 00 on both channels and in lieu of commercials seen on the international broadcasts, the presenters give a brief update on UK news for domestic audiences.

In lieu of willing men who meet these qualifications, congregations are sometimes overseen by the congregation's men in general.

In 1987 he told Nine-O-One Network Magazine that he was " ashamed " of his promotion: " I wanted to be known as a guitarist and I know, too, that they give you titles like that in lieu of money.

Alternatively, some units allow or require each member to wear one laced into their boot in lieu of the second around the neck.

Special damages basically include the compensatory and punitive damages for the tort committed in lieu of the injury or harm to the plaintiff.

BlitzMail, the campus e-mail network, plays a tremendous role in social life, as students tend to use it for communication in lieu of cellular phones or instant messaging programs.

As of 2008, many common rail and unit injection systems already employ new injectors using stacked piezoelectric wafers in lieu of a solenoid, giving finer control of the injection event.

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

Many third party developers used the V64 in lieu of the PC64 Development Kit sold by Nintendo ; the V64 was considered an attractive, low cost alternative to the expensive N64 development machine, which was manufactured by Silicon Graphics at the time.

It was announced by War Department General Order No. 6, 1918-01-12, with the following information concerning the medal: " A bronze medal of appropriate design and a ribbon to be worn in lieu thereof, to be awarded by the President to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army shall hereafter distinguish himself or herself, or who, since 1917-04-06, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility in time of war or in connection with military operations against an armed enemy of the United States.

In many places, particularly in smaller high schools and colleges, end zones are undecorated, or have plain white diagonal stripes spaced several yards apart, in lieu of colors and decorations.

* 1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.

Pour être électeur du tiers état, il faut avoir 25 ans, être français ou naturalisé, être domicilié au lieu de vote et compris au rôle des impositions.

In lieu of a proper soundtrack album, the filmmakers instead produced an album called A Tribute to Hard Core Logo which pretended to be a tribute album to the non-existent band.

Lacking any source of adequate funds, they revived an 1864 Haitian law, discovered by Butler, requiring peasants to perform labor on local roads in lieu of paying a road tax.

After a military investigation and courtmartial, Burleson was found to have lawfully killed the two men.

This demand came in the wake of repeated adjournments in the courtmartial retrial of 20 soldiers convicted of involvement in the mutiny at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva on 2 November 2000.

The IRA leadership reacted by suspending them to await courtmartial, while IRA volunteers who supported the Congress were stood down.