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MACHINE (law)


MACHINE. A contrivance which serves to apply or regulate moving power; or it is a tool more or less complicated, which is used to render useful natural is a tool more or less complicated, which is used to render useful natural instruments, Clef. des Lois Rom. h.t. instruments, Clef. des Lois Rom. h.t. 2. The act of congress gives to inventors the right to obtain a patent 2. The act of congress gives to inventors the right to obtain a patent right for any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, right for any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture,