Abuse - Law Dictionary Search Results

applies a "means test" to determine whether an individual debtor's chapter 7 filing is presumed to be an abuse of the Bankruptcy Code requiring dismissal or conversion of the case (generally to chapter 13). Abuse is presumed

Brothel

any portion of any house, room [conveyance] or place, which is used for purpose [of sexual exploitation or abuse] for the gain of another person or for the mutual gain of two or more prostitutes. [Immoral Traffic

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Flagrantly abused his position as member

Flagrantly abused his position as member, The clause 'flagrantly abused his position as member' means the doing of such act

Closure

be put forthwith, without amendment or debate, unless it appears to the chair that the motion is an abuse of the Rules of the House or an infringement of the rights of minority, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May,

Child in need of care and protection

the child and there is a reasonable likelihood of the threat being carried out, or (b) has killed, abused or neglected some other child or children and there is a reasonable likelihood of the child in question

Peerage

'Parliament' for this purpose, see St. John Peerage Claim, 1915, AC 282, and the (English) Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 72), an Act to prevent abuses in connection with grant

League of Nations (Societe des Nations)

Law; the International Labour Organisation, providing first machinery for securing standards of labour conditions which can guard against abuse and economic competition; regular, efficient technique for carrying on, by conference and personal contact, the technical business of

Judicial review

the decision but also of the decision-making process. It intends to protect the individual against the misuse or abuse of the power by a wide range of authorities. Judicial review is a protection to the individual and

Judge

not permit any error to be assigned that impeached them in their trust and office, and in wilful abuse of the same, but only in ignorance, and mistaking either of the law or of the case in

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