REFLECTING GALVANOMETER
\ɹɪflˈɛktɪŋ ɡˌalvɐnˈɒmɪtə], \ɹɪflˈɛktɪŋ ɡˌalvɐnˈɒmɪtə], \ɹ_ɪ_f_l_ˈɛ_k_t_ɪ_ŋ ɡ_ˌa_l_v_ɐ_n_ˈɒ_m_ɪ_t_ə]\
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Of Sir William Thomson, a galvanometer in which several short magnetic needles are fastened to a silvered glass mirror, suspended by a silk thread in the midst of a coil of wire. A current passing through the wire causes deflection of the needles and hence of the mirror which casts a luminous reflection on a graduated arc. This form of galvanometer gives a very delicate measure of the strength of the current.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.