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Chimerical

Merely imaginary fanciful fantastic wildly or vainly conceived having or capable of having no existence except in thought as chimerical projects...

Chimere

The upper robe worn by a bishop to which lawn sleeves are usually attached...

Fantastic

Existing only in imagination fanciful imaginary not real chimerical...

Laputan

Of or pertaining to Laputa an imaginary flying island described in Gullivers Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers...

Projector

One who projects a scheme or design hence one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes...

Oleron, an island lying in the Bay of Acquitain, at the mouth of the river Charente, formerly in the possession of England. The inhabitants of Oleron have been able mariners for seven or eight hundred years past. They are said to have drawn up the laws of the Navy still called the Laws of Oleron. According to some French writers these maritime laws were digested as the Reole des Jugemens d'Oleron, by direction of Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry II. as Duchess of Guienne, and enlarged and improved by her son Richard I. Selden (de Dom. Mar.c. xiv.) maintains that they were compiled and promulgated by Richard I. as King of England. Writers, as Mons. Boucher, of Paris, and the English Luders, consider the whole account fallacious. The former calls the more story of our Richard I. and Queen Eleanor une chimere des plus invraisemblables, Monthly Review, December, 1811; and see Nouveau Larousse, tom. vi. P. 488. The laws of Oleron were to a great extent the foundation of the maritime laws of mos...

Reasonable doubt

Reasonable doubt, does not mean some light, airy, insubstantial doubt that may fit through the minds of any of us about almost anything at some time or other; it does not mean a doubt begotten by sympathy out of reluctance to convict; it means a real doubt, a doubt founded upon reasons, K. Gopal Reddy v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1979 SC 387 (391): (1979) 2 SCR 363: (1979) 1 SCC 355.The doubt that prevents one from being firmly convinced of a defendant's guilt, or the belief that there is a real possibility that a defendant is not guilty, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1272.If a reasonable doubt arises in the mind of the court after taking into consideration the entire material before it regarding the complicity of the accused the benefit of such doubt should be given to the accused but the reasonable doubt should be a real and substantial one and a 'well founded actual doubt arising out of the evidence existing after consideration of all the evidenced. 'Hence a mere whim or a...

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