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Home Dictionary Name: abilityAbility
Ability. See s. 6 of the Statute of Frauds Amendment Act, 1828, tit. REPRESENTATION.Means the capacity to perform an act or service esp. the power to carry out a legal act, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 4....
Non-ability
Non-ability, inability; an exception against a person, Fitz. N.B. 35, 65. See DISABILITY....
Shall be made on the ground of merit and ability
Shall be made on the ground of merit and ability, clearly postulate that the order of the appointing authority must show ex facie that the considerations mentioned in the rule were present in the mind of the appointing authority at the time of making promotions, Lal Chand Pargal v. Director, NES, AIR 1970 J&K 57 (64) (FB)....
capacity
capacity pl: -ties 1 : a qualification, power, or ability (as to give consent or make a testament) created by operation of law 2 : an individual's ability or aptitude ;esp : mental ability as it relates to responsibility for the commission of a crime (as murder) see also diminished capacity compare competency, incapacity, insanity ...
access
access often attrib 1 : permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, communicate with, or pass to and from a place, thing, or person [public to federal land] [ to the courts] 2 : opportunity for sexual intercourse 3 : a landowner's legal right to pass from his or her land to a highway and to return without being obstructed 4 : freedom or ability to obtain, make use of, or participate in something [the right to equal treatment holds with respect to a limited set of interests — like voting — and demands that every person have the same to these interests "L. H. Tribe"] 5 a : a way by which a thing or place may be approached or reached b : passage to and from a place [provide a means of to the land] 6 : opportunity to view or copy a copyrighted work ...
preference system
preference system The nine categories since fiscal year 1992 among which the family-sponsored and employment-based immigrant preference visas are distributed. The family-sponsored preferences are: 1) unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 2) spouses, children, and unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; 3) married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens; 4) brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. The employment-based preferences are: 1) priority workers (persons of extraordinary ability, outstanding professors and researchers, and certain multinational executives and managers); 2) professionals with advanced degrees or aliens with exceptional ability; 3) skilled workers, professionals (without advanced degrees), and needed unskilled workers; 4) special immigrants; and 5) employment creation immigrants (investors). Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
homeostasis
The ability and tendency of certain systems to maintain a relatively constant internal state in spite of changes in external conditions this ability is achieved by the presence of feedback mechanisms which can adjust the state of the system to compensate for changes in the state caused by the external environment It is exemplified in homeothermal biological systems such as animals which maintain relatively constant blood temperature and composition in spite of variations in external temperature or the composition of the food ingested...
Goodwill
Goodwill, may be the whole advantage belonging to the firm, its reputation as also connection thereof. It, thus, means that every affirmative advantage as contrasted with negative advantage that has been acquired in carrying on the business whether connected with the premises of business or its name or style, everything connected with or carrying the benefit of the business, Ramnik Vallabhdas Madhwani v. Taraben Pravinlal Madhwani, (2004) 1 SCC 407: AIR 2004 SC 1084 (Partnership Act, 1932, s. 55).A business's reputation, patronage, and other intan-gible assets that are considered when apprising the business, esp. for purchase; The ability to earn income in excess of the an come that would be expected from the business veined as a mere collec-tion of assets, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 703.The advantage or benefit which is acquired by a business, beyond the mere value of the capital, stock, funds, or property employed therein, incon-sequence of the general public patronage and ...
Probation
Probation, connotes a period of trial, Ajudhia Nath Dhingra v. Union of India, 1976 Sim LJ 357.Means a sort of 'locus pententiae' to the employer to observe the work, ability, efficiency, sincerity, and competence of the servant and if he is found not suitable for the post, the master reserves the right to dispense with his service without anything more during or at the end of the prescribed period which is styled as period of probation, Parshotam Lal Dhingra v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 36: 1958 (1) LLJ 544: 1958 SCJ 217.Probation. (1) Proof generally. (2) Suspension of a final appointment to an office until a person tempo-rarily appointed (who is called a 'probationer') has by his conduct proved himself to be fit to fill it. (3) Treatment of an offender under the (English) Probation of Offenders Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).By s. 1 of this Act where any person is charged before a Court of summary jurisdiction and the Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that, ha...
accountable
accountable 1 : liable [ for the burglary] 2 : obliged to accept responsibility [the bank for payment of the check] ac·count·abil·i·ty [ə-kan-tə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
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