n. a written request for a judgment in the moving party's favor before a lawsuit goes to trial and based on recorded (testimony outside court) affidavits (or declarations under penalty of perjury), depositions, admissions of fact, answers to written interrogatories (written questions), claiming that all factual and legal issues can be decided in the ...
By the 19th century, swords were reduced to the status of either ceremonial weapon or sport equipment in modern fencing. Non-European weapons called sword include single-edged weapons such as the Middle Eastern saif, the Chinese dao and the related Japanese katana.ommon accessories to the sword include the scabbard, as well as the sword belt. 1  Scabbard: The scabbard, also known as the sheath, is a protective cover often provided for the sword blade. 2  Over the millennia, scabbards have been made of many materials, including leather, wood, and metals such as brass or steel.
Modern reproductions of a medieval European spear and a series of javelins. The heads are hand forged steel, the shafts are made from Ash wood. A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with fire hardened spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or bronze.