Circumventive - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: circumventivein fraudem legis
in fraudem legis [Latin] : in circumvention of the rules of law ...
Circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts address or fraud deception fraud imposture delusion...
Circumventive
Tending to circumvent deceiving by artifices deluding...
Encompassment
The act of surrounding or the state of being surrounded circumvention...
Consent
Consent, an act of reason accompanied with delib-erations, the mind weighing, as in a balance, the good or evil on either side. Consent supposes three things-a physical power, a mental power, and a free and serious use of them. Hence it is that if consent be obtained by intimidation, force, meditated impositions, circumvention, surprise, or undue influence, it is to be treated as a delusion, and not as a deliberate and free act of the mind. In relation to Criminal Law, see (English) Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885-1922, and see AGE; ABDUCTION.The word 'consent' as used in s. 30(2) of the Sale of Goods Act means 'agreeing on the same thing in the same sense' as defined in s. 13 of the Indian Contract Act. A consent induced by false representation may not be free, but it can nevertheless be real, and ordinarily the effect of fraud or misrepresentation is to render a transaction voidable only and not void, Central National Bank Ltd. v. United Industrial Bank Ltd., AIR 1954 SC 181: (1954...
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