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Like minded

Having a like disposition or purpose of the same mind...


like-kind exchange

like-kind exchange : an exchange of business or investment property of the same kind, class, or character and excluding securities that is made pursuant to section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code and is thus exempt from taxation ...


Liquefy

To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid to melt to dissolve and technically to melt by the sole agency of heat...


Liquescency

The quality or state of being liquescent...


Liquescent

Tending to become liquid inclined to melt melting...


Locus standi

Locus standi, is a place for standing, rights to be heard, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637.Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has locus standi which his interest is directly hit by the bill, if passed into law, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abrahan and S.C. hawtrey, 1956, p. 113.Locus standi, the right of a party to appear and be heard on the question before any tribunal, frequently disputed in private bill legislation. Consult the works of Smethurst, or of Clifford and Stephens, on this subject....


prosecution

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Prosecution

The act or process of prosecuting or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something pursuit by efforts of body or mind as the prosecution of a scheme plan design or undertaking the prosecution of war...


Prosecution

Prosecution, a proceeding either by way of indict-ment or information, in the criminal courts, in order to put an offender upon his trial. In all criminal prosecutions the King is nominally the prosecutor. See titles PUBLIC PROSECUTOR and ADVOCATE, LORD.The word 'prosecution' as used in Article 20 contemplated a proceeding of a criminal nature either before a court or a judicial tribunal, Thomas Dana v. State of Punjab, AIR 1959 SC 375: (1959) Supp 1 SCR 274.Means a criminal action; a proceeding instituted and carried on by due course of law, before a competent tribunal, for the purpose of determining the guilt or innocence of a person charged with crime', Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi, AIR 2001 SC 2734.Means criminal proceedings in general. It includes all criminal proceedings to which any oral obloque is attached, ST Sahib v. Hasan Ghani Sahib, AIR 1957 Mad 646.Means a person appointed by the government to conduct all prosecutions on behalf of the State, Mansoor v. State of Madhy...


prosecution history estoppel

prosecution history estoppel see estoppel ...



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