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Home Dictionary Name: antianti-lapse statute
anti-lapse statute : a statute providing that in the event a person who would have received a gift under a will dies before the person who made the will dies then the gift is distributed to the heirs of the person who would have received the gift compare lapse ...
Anti-John law
Anti-John law, means a criminal law statute punishing prostitutes' customers, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 92....
Anti-manifesto
Anti-manifesto, the declaration of a belligerent, as a reply to the manifesto of the other belligerent, showing that the war, as far as he is concerned, is defensive....
Anti-suit injunction
Anti-suit injunction, is a specie of injunction. When a court restrains a party to a suit/proceeding before it, from instituting or presenting a case in another court including a foreign court, Modi Entertainment Network v. W.S.G. Cricket Pvt. Ltd., (2003) 4 SCC 341....
at-will
at-will A term used to describe many employment relationships. In a nutshell, "at-will" means that an employee can be fired for any reason, or for no reason at all. However, even an at-will employee is entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws. If an employee is terminated in violation of anti-discrimination laws, he or she may be able to successfully bring an action against the former employer. ...
Kuklux
The name adopted in the southern part of the United States by a secret political organization active for several years after the close of the Civil War and having for its aim the repression of the political power of the freed negroes called also Kuklux Klan and the Klan It exerienced a revival in the 1920s in the north as well as the south and persists as a weak organization into the 1990s Its goals were primarily anti negro and anti Catholic and its tactics included terrorist attacks on negroes for the purpose of intimidation with the goal of continuing segregation The signature activity of the Klan was the burning of a cross either at rallies of Klansmen or on the property of African Americans which they hoped to intimidate...
Active supervision
Active supervision, means under the test for determining whether a private entity may claim a state-action exemption from the anti-trust laws, the right of the State to review the entity's anti-competitive acts and to disapprove those acts that do not pronote State policy, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 33....
Habitually
Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappu Nawabkhan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985, s. 2(c)]The word 'habitually'connotes some degree of fre-quency and continuity. It requires a continuance and permanence of some tendency, something that has developed into a propensity, that is, present from day-to-day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fourth Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1204, Vijay Narain Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1984 SC 1334 (1338): (1984) 3 SCC 14: (1984) 3 SCR 435.Means 'usually' and 'generally', Mustakmiya Jabbar-miya Shaikh v. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police, (1995) 3 SCC 237.Would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing ...
antichresis
antichresis [New Latin, from Greek, from anti- opposite + chrēsis use, from chrēsthai to use, need] in the civil law of Louisiana : a written pledge and transfer from a debtor to a creditor of possession of immovable property giving the creditor the right to the fruits (as rents) of the property which are to be deducted from the interest or principal of the debt compare pawn ...
combination in restraint of trade
combination in restraint of trade :any monopoly or attempt at monopoly or any contract, combination, or conspiracy intended to restrain trade or commerce that violates the anti-trust laws see also Sherman Antitrust Act in the Important Laws section ...
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