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Home Dictionary Name: conditional privilegeconditional privilege
conditional privilege : qualified privilege at privilege ...
conditionally privileged communication
conditionally privileged communication : privileged communication ...
privilege
privilege [Latin privilegium law affecting a specific person, special right, from privus private + leg- lex law] 1 : a right, license, or exemption from duty or liability granted as a special benefit, advantage, or favor: as a : an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action is privileged compare excuse absolute privilege : a privilege that exempts a person from liability esp. for defamation regardless of intent or motive ;specif : a privilege that exempts high public officials (as legislators) from liability for statements made while acting in their official capacity without regard to intent or malice qualified privilege : a privilege esp. in the law of defamation that may be defeated esp. by a showing of actual malice called also conditional privilege b : an exemption from a requirement to disclose information (as fo...
privileged communication
privileged communication 1 : confidential communication 2 a : a defamatory communication that does not expose the party making it to the liability that would follow from it if not privileged called also absolutely privileged communication b : a defamatory statement made by one person to another who is in a confidential relation (as that of a prospective employer) or who has an interest therein that may upon proof of bad faith or actual malice be deprived of its privileged character called also conditionally privileged communication ...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
Distress
Distress [fr. distringo, Lat., to bind fast; districtio, Med. Lat., whence distraindre, Fr.], a taking, without legal process, of a personal chattel from the possession of a wrong-doer into the hands of a party grieved, as a pledge for the redressing an injury, the performance of a duty, or the satisfaction of a demand.This remedy may be resorted to by a landlord for recovery of rent in arrear, by a rate collector or tax collector for recovery of rates or taxes, and by justices of the peace for the recovery of fines due on summary convictions.A distress may be made of common right for the rent payable by a tenant to a landlord, technically termed 'rent-service,' and by particular reservation, or under s. 121 of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, for rent-charges, and also for rents-seck since the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1730 (4 Geo. 2, c. 28), s. 5, which extended the same remedy to rents-seck, rents of assize, and chief-rents, and thereby in effect abolished all mater...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
disqualify
disqualify -fied -fy·ing 1 : to deprive of the required qualities, properties, or conditions [a financial interest in the case that disqualified the judge] 2 : to deprive of a right or privilege esp. after a hearing [misconduct that disqualified the employee from receiving unemployment benefits] ...
vested
vested 1 : fully and absolutely established as a right, benefit, or privilege : not dependent on any contingency or condition ;specif : not subject to forfeiture if employment terminates before retirement [ pension benefits] 2 : having a vested interest [a employee] [a beneficiary] ...
Disincorporate
To deprive of corporate powers rights or privileges to divest of the condition of a corporate body...
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