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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 983 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIME (0. Eng.
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Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme,
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hour,
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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
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Lat. tempus)
  , the general
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term for the experience of duration or succession, either in whole or in
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part . For time in its psychological sense see SPACE AND TIME; for time in
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music, see RHYTHM; for the methods of reckoning time see
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CALENDAR; DAY; MONTH; and the articles TIME, MEASUREMENT OF, and TIME STANDARD, below . Gener- ally in
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English law, where any particular time is mentioned in acts of parliament or legal
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instruments, it is to be defined as meaning, in
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Great Britain,
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Greenwich mean time, and in Ireland,
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Dublin mean time . At
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common law, where parties enter into legal relations, and specify their intention of being bound by any particular arbitrary
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system, the courts will, as a
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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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