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business compulsion : economic duress ...
economic duress
economic duress : wrongful or unlawful conduct that creates fear of economic hardship which prevents the exercise of free will in engaging in a business transaction ;also : the defense of economic duress called also business compulsion ...
compulsion
compulsion 1 : an act of compelling (as by threat or intimidation) ;specif : coercion [a payment exacted by lawless "E. A. Farnsworth and W. F. Young"] 2 : the state of being compelled ;specif : duress NOTE: Compulsion can make a contract voidable or be a ground for damages or restitution. Compulsion may also be a defense to a criminal act. ...
Compulsatively
By compulsion...
Compulsive
Having power to compel exercising or applying compulsion...
Compulsively
By compulsion by force...
Testimonial compulsion
Testimonial compulsion, connotes coercion which produces the positive volitional evidentiary acts of the person, as opposed to the negative attitude of silence or submission on his part, Subedar v. State, AIR 1957 All 396: 1957 All LJ 263...
Business
Business, 'business' is a word of wide import. It has no definite meaning. Its perceptions differ from private to public sector or from institutional financing to commercial banking, Mahesh Chandra v. Regional Manager Uttar Pradesh Financial Corpn., AIR 1993 SC 935 (939): (1993) 2 SCC 279. [State Financial Corporation Act, (63 of 1951), s. 24]--Business would undoubtedly be property, unless there is something to the contrary in the enactment, J.K. Trust Bombay v. CIT, (1958) SCR 65: 1957 SCJ 845: AIR 1957 SC 846.Business includes the activities carried on by any public body, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 20, 4th Edn., Para 546, p. 357. The term 'business' includes every trade, occupation and profession. The word 'business' has no technical meaning, but is to be read with reference to the subject and intent of the Act in which it occurs. The term 'business' means an affair requiring attention and labour as the chief concern; mercantile pursuits, that one does for livelihood, occupati...
Controlled business
Controlled business, the definition of 'controlled business' contemplates two kinds of insurers--(i) insurers who carry on life business only, and (ii) insurers who carry on composite business, that is to say certain other business which does not ex facie come within controlled business, Under sub-clause (a) of s. 2(3)(i) controlled business covers the entire life business of an insurer if he carries on no other class of insurance business and under sub-clause (b) all the business appertaining to his life insurance business is included if he is a composite insurer. The controlled business in either case is intended to embrace all the business concerning life insurance. In the first case it means the whole of the business of the insurer and in the second case the part which comes within the life businessbut not other, National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Life Insurance Corporation of India, AIR 1963 SC 1911 (1913): (1964) 2 SCR 182. [Life Insurance Corpora-tion Act, (31 of 1950), s. 2(3)(i) E...
Business of the House
Business of the House, in the House of Commons, it is not rigidly fixed. The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth -- Philip Laundy, p. 64.Business of the House, in the Indian Parliament, the business of the House is divided into (1) Government business, (2) Private Member's business; Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 407.Business of the House, means the relative order of all the items of business in the House of a legislature to be taken upon a particular day. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Philip Laundy, p. 64.Business of the House, consists of Government business, Private member's business and the business transacted in opposition time, Parliamentary Practice Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, pp. 270 and 271....
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