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verdict

based on a numerical average of the amounts written down by jurors (as percentages of fault in a comparative negligence case) ;specif : a verdict that awards damages based on the average of the sums written down

Emissivity

Tendency to emission comparative facility of emission or rate at which emission takes place

Negligence

3660 (3665): (2001) 8 SCC 151. Negligence, has many manifestations ' it may be active negligence, collateral negligence, comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, continued negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence, hazardous negligence, active and passive negligence, willful or reckless

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Ethnography

has for its subject the characteristics of the human family developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals descriptive ethnology See Ethnology

Glottology

The science of tongues or languages comparative philology glossology

Proportional

Having a due proportion or comparative relation being in suitable proportion or degree as the parts of an edifice are proportional

Confidential report

subordinate to the reporting authority, that such reports are maintained for the purpose of serving as data of comparative merit when questions of promotion, confirmation, etc. arise. They also show that such reports are not ordinarily to

Federal Government

the Government of India in detail, and see DOMINIONS and STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER. See Journal of Society of Comparative Legislation for April and July, 1900.

Marriage

facie ecclesi',' which abolition made more common the action of breach of promise of marriage, which is of comparatively modern date. The strictness of Lord Hardwicke's Act led to marriages being annulled through misnomers in the banns

bill

attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on

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