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Home Dictionary Name: adviceImproper legal advice and wrong legal advice
Improper legal advice and wrong legal advice, Giving of improper legal advice is different from giving of wrong legal advice. While the former may amount to professional misconduct, the latter may not be so. It is against professional etiquette for a lawyer to give improper legal advice with an ulterior object. It is unworthy that an advocate should accept employment with such motive, or so long as his client has such understanding of his purpose. It is professionally improper for a member of the bar to prepare false documents or to draw pleadings knowingly that the allegations made are untrue of his knowledge, Pandurang Dattatraya Khandekar v. Bar Council of Maharashtra, AIR 1984 SC 110: (1984) 1 SCR 414: (1984) 2 SCC 556....
Advice
Advice, [fr. avis, Fr., avviso, It., avice, Old Eng.], view, opinion, counsel; also, the instruction usually given by one merchant or banker to another by letter, informing him of bills or drafts drawn on him, with particulars of date, or sight, the sum, and the payee. Bills presented for acceptance or payment are frequently dishonoured for 'want of advice....
Advice on evidence
Advice on evidence, The advice of counsel is usually taken as to the evidence with which it is necessary to be prepared at the trial of an action. It is customary to lay all the papers before counsel for this to be done as soon as the pleadings are closed and the case entered for trial....
Independent advice
Independent advice, means counsel that is impartial and not given to further the interests of the person giving it. Whether a testator or donor received independent advice before making a disposition is often an important issue in an undue-influence challenge to the property disposition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 774....
advice
advice 1 : recommendation regarding a decision or course of conduct [he shall have power, by and with the and consent of the Senate, to make treaties "U.S. Constitution art. II"] [ of counsel] 2 : an official notice concerning a business transaction ...
Act of Parliament
Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...
advise
advise ad·vised ad·vis·ing vt 1 : to give advice to : counsel [ them to draw up a will] 2 : to give information or notice to [ them of their rights] vi 1 : to give advice [ on legal matters] 2 : to take counsel [ with your lawyer] ad·vis·er also ad·vi·sor [əd-vī-zər] n ...
counsel
counsel pl: counsel [Old French conseil advice, from Latin consilium discussion, advice, council, from consulere to consult] : lawyer : as a : a lawyer participating in the management or trial of a case in court […to have the assistance of for his defense "U.S. Constitution amend. VI"] [a right to ] b : a lawyer appointed or engaged to advise or represent a client in legal matters (as negotiations or the drafting of documents) compare attorney NOTE: A judge who has acted as counsel in a matter (as by advising an investigator) is disqualified from hearing the case. of counsel 1 : assisting another lawyer in a case [was attorney of counsel] 2 : employed on a part-time basis [a tax attorney will move also and become of counsel "National Law Journal"] vt -seled or: -selled -sel·ing or: -sel·ling : advise ...
India
India, the territory of India comprises the territories of the States and that of Union territories which are specified in Sch. 1 of the Constitution and any other territories which may be acquired, Constitution of India, Art. 1(3)(a), (b), (c).means Bharat, a Union of States, Constitution of India, Art. 1.India, in 1876, by the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 6), Queen Victoria was empowered to add to the style of the Crown, with a view of recognizing the transfer of the Government of India to the Queen by the Government of India Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106), and the addition of 'Empress of India' was made by Proclamation in April, 1876, with which addition as 'Emperor of India' it has passed to his present Majesty.In any Act of Parliament passed after 1889 the expression 'British India' means 'all territories and places within her Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by her Majesty through the Governor-General of India or through any govern...
Inops consilii
Inops consilii (lacking advice).Means Destitute of counsel; without legal counsel. This term described actions taken without benefit of legal advice, as when a testator drafts a will without the help of an attorney, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 794....
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