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Home Dictionary Name: automobileautomobile exception
automobile exception : an exception to the prohibition on warrantless searches that allows a police officer to search an automobile without a search warrant in cases where the officer has probable cause to believe that the automobile contains evidence of a crime and that the evidence would be disposed of if the officer were to leave to obtain a warrant ...
Automobile
Automobile, 'automobile' means any vehicle powered either by internal combustion engine or by any method of generating power to drive such vehicle. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, (14 of 1981) s. 2(e)]...
automobile guest statute
automobile guest statute : guest statute ...
automobile liability insurance
automobile liability insurance Protection against payment for injury to other persons or their property from an accident involving your car. Source: FindLaw ...
Wilful
Wilful, deliberate conduct of a person who is a free agent, knows that he is doing and intends to do what he is doing, Dictionary of Law by L.B. Curzon, p. 361. See also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means 'governed by Will without yielding to reason or without regard to reason; obstinately or perversely self-willed, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, p. 2617; see also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means intentional; not incidental or involuntary.Wilful means done intentionally, knowingly, and purposely, without justifiable excuse as distingui-shed from an act done carelessly; thoughtlessly, heedlessly or inadvertently;In common parlance word wilful is used in sense of intentional, as distinguished from accidental or involuntary, Word and Phrases, Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means an act or omission which is done voluntarily and intentionally and with the specific intent to do something the law forbids or with the...
Wilful default
Wilful default, implies intentional or conscious violation of obligation to pay the rent due; it may also be on account of supine indifference or callous or recalcitrant conduct, J. Jermons v. Aliammal, (1999) 7 SCC 382.Means either a consciousness of negligence or breach of duty, or a recklessness in the performance of a duty, Dictionary of Law by L.B. Curzon, p. 361, Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Wilful default means an act consciously or deliberately done with open defiance and intent not to pay the rent, Chordia Automobiles v. S. Snoosa, AIR 2000 SC 1880 (1883): (2000) 3 SCC 282.A consensus of the meaning of the words 'wilful default' appears to indicate that default in order to be wilful must be intentional, deliberate, calculated and conscious, with full knowledge of legal consequences following therefrom, S. Sundaram Pillai v. V.R. Pattabiraman, AIR 1985 SC 582 (589): (1985) 1 SCC 591.Means a deliberate and intentional default knowing full well the legal cons...
Horseless
Being without a horse specif not requiring a horse said of certain vehicles in which horse power has been replaced by electricity steam etc as a horseless carriage or truck It was used primarily in the term ldquohorseless carriagerdquo to refer to automobiles By the 1930s when automobiles had become more common than horses for transportation the term had lost its currency...
Motor car
An automobile locomobile or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway esp an automobile specially designed for passengers and propelled by an internal combustion engine...
Service station
a business where automobiles may be serviced and repaired usually also having a gasoline vending apparatus in which case it is also called a gas station or gasoline station Facilities for repair of automobiles but without a gasoline dispensing function are commonly called repair shops...
chattel
chattel [Old French chatel goods, property, from Medieval Latin capitale, from neuter of capitalis chief, principal see capital ] : an item of tangible or intangible personal property ;esp : chattel personal in this entry NOTE: In some jurisdictions the term chattel is restricted to items of tangible and movable personal property. Other jurisdictions also classify intangible assets and property items as chattels. chattel personal pl: chattels personal : an item of tangible movable personal property (as livestock or an automobile) that is not permanently connected with real estate chattel real pl: chattels real : an interest (as a leasehold or profit a prendre) in an item of immovable property (as land or a building) that is less than a freehold estate compare fixture NOTE: Interests that are considered chattels real have been treated by the common law as personal property despite being interests in real property. ...
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