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benefit 1 : something that provides an advantage or gain ;specif : an enhancement of property value, enjoyment of facilities, or increase in general prosperity arising from a public improvement general benefit : a benefit to the community at large resulting from a public improvement special benefit : a benefit from a public improvement that directly enhances the value of particular property and is not shared by the community at large NOTE: In proceedings for a partial taking for the purpose of a public improvement, the condemning authority may use a special benefit to the remaining land as a set-off against the landowner's damages for the taking. 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : a right esp. that serves to limit a person's liability benefit of dis·cus·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing creditor to sue the principal first benefit of di·vi·sion : the right of a surety being sued to compel the suing creditor to also sue the cosureti...
social security disability benefits (ssdi)
social security disability benefits (ssdi) SSDI benefits are payable to disabled individuals through the Social Security Administration. Many state workers' compensation statutes have specific provisions which dictate whether an injured employee may receive both workers' compensation benefits and SSDI benefits at the same time. Generally, if both benefits are appropriate for the same individual, a complex calculation will be performed to "offset" the benefits so that the individual does not receive more money than they are entitled to from both programs. ...
Benefit
Benefit, does not include any benefit which a mutawalli is entitled to claim solely by reason of his being such mutawalli. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3 (b)]The word 'benefit' in the context means for the immediate benefit of the individual or his wife or minor child, Yeshwant Rao Ghorpode v. CWT, AIR 1967 SC 135 (137): 1966 Supp SCR 419. [Wealth-tax (Amendment) Act, 1964 s. 4(i)(iii)]Where a person derives a pecuniary advantage as a result of or in connection with the commission of an offence, he is treated as if he had obtained thereby a sum of money equal to the value of the pecuniary advantage, R. v. Righby, (2006) 1 WLR 3067....
Benefit of clergy
Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes and states, anciently converted to Christianity, granted to the clergy very bountiful privileges and exemptions, and particularly an immunity of their persons in criminal proceedings before secular judges. The clergy, afterwards increasing in wealth, number, and power, claimed this benefit as an indefeasible right, which had been merely a matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture: 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' They obtained great enlargements of this privilege, extending it not only to persons in holy orders, but also to all who had any kind of subordinate ministration in the church, and even to laymen if they could read, applying it to civil as well as criminal causes. These exemptions at length grew so burthensome and scandalous, that the legislature from time to time interfered, by making par...
Benefit sharing
Benefit sharing, 'benefit sharing', in relation to a variety, means such proportion of the benefit accruing to a breeder of such variety or such proportion of the benefit accruing to the breeder from an agent or a licensee of such variety, as the case may be, for which a claimant shall be entitled as determined by the Authority under s. 26. [Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Right Act, (53 of 2001) s. 2(b)]...
Benefit of doubt
Benefit of doubt, Where evidence really raises a reasonable doubt in the mind of the court regarding the participation in the crime by the first respondent, that doubt must be resolved in his favour, however, the benefit of doubt to which the accused is entitled to reasonable doubt-the doubt which rational thinking men will reasonably, honestly and conscientiously entertain and not the doubt of a timid mind which fights shy-though unwittingly it may be-or is afraid of the logical consequences, if that benefit was not given, State of U.P. v. Iftikhar Khan, AIR 1973 SC 863: (1973) 1 SCC 512: (1973) 3 SCR 328....
Fair and equitable benefit sharing
Fair and equitable benefit sharing, 'fair and equitable benefit sharing' means sharing of benefits as determined by the National Biodiversity Authority under s. 21. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(g)]...
benefit of discussion
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benefit of division
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benefit of inventory
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