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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 983 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIME (0. Eng. See also:Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, See also:hour, See also:Dan. time; from the See also:root also seen in " See also:tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the See also:sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to See also:Lat. tempus)  , the See also:general See also:term for the experience of duration or See also:succession, either in whole or in See also:part . For See also:time in its psychological sense see SPACE AND TIME; for time in See also:music, see See also:RHYTHM; for the methods of reckoning time see See also:CALENDAR; See also:DAY; See also:MONTH; and the articles TIME, MEASUREMENT OF, and TIME See also:STANDARD, below . Gener- ally in See also:English See also:law, where any particular time is mentioned in acts of See also:parliament or legal See also:instruments, it is to be defined as meaning, in See also:Great See also:Britain, See also:Greenwich mean time, and in See also:Ireland, See also:Dublin mean time . At See also:common law, where parties enter into legal relations, and specify their intention of being See also:bound by any particular arbitrary See also:system, the courts will, as a See also:rule, give effect to their intentions .

End of Article: TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
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