1995 - Law Dictionary Search Results
Public interest
Means retention of honest and efficient employees and weeding of inefficient and dishonest, Indira Saxena v. Municipal Council, 1995 Jab LJ 28. Means those interests which concern the public at large, Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., Reprint 2000,
Payable
Payable, 'payable' generally means that which should be paid, New Delhi Municipal Committee v. Kalu Ram, AIR 1976 SC 1637 (1639): (1976) 3 SCC 407: (1976) Supp SCR 87. The expression 'the full amount payable by...
Possession
Possession, correctly understood, means effective physical control or occupation. The word 'possession' is sometimes used inaccurately as synonymous with the right to possess, Gurucharan Singh v. Kamla Singh, (1976) 2 SCC 152. Possession, does not imply...
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Owner's equity
Owner's equity, is the residual claim of the owners of the business on its assets after recognition of the liabilities of the business. Owner's equity repre-sents the amounts contributed by the owners to the business, plus...
Mental illness
mental disorder other than mental retardation. (Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (q)]
Reasonable person
Reasonable person, means fictional person with an ordinary degree of reason, prudence, care, fore-sight, or intelligence whose conduct, conclusion, or expectation in relation to a particular circumstance or fact is used as an objective standard by...
Misbehaviour
Misbehaviour, Word 'misbehaviour' used in cl. 2 of Inquiries Act is not vague; it would certainly mean a lapse from proper standard of conduct in discharge of functions as a government servant. Every dishonest act of...
Modesty
Modesty, as 'womanly propriety of behaviour; scrupulous chastity of thought, speech and conduct; reserve or sense of shame proceeding from instinctive aversion to impure or coarse suggestions, Oxford English Dictionary (1993 Edn.); Raju Pandurang Mahale v....
Modification
Corpn. v. KPMG, (2005) 1 WLR (Ch). [See (English) Pension Schemes Act, 1993, s. 181; (English) Pension Act, 1995, ss. 56(2)(a), 60, 67, 75] Modification, the term usually applied to the decree of the Teind Court, awarding
Mutilate
Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some
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