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Power

Will or the party to whom they are given. Trusts are always imperative and are obligatory upon the conscience of the party entrusted. The test is whether what is expressed by the testator is his direction intended

Oath

3(37)] An oath is a 'form of attestation by which a person signifies that he is bound in conscience to perform an act faithfully and truthfully. It involves the Idea of calling in God to witness what

Natural justice

in the traditions of British jurisprudence, often involved it in conjunction with a reference to 'equity and good conscience'. Legal experts of earlier generations did not draw any distinction between 'natural justice' and 'natural law'. 'Natural justice'

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Just

and reasonableness having large peripheral field. The largeness is, of course, not arbitrary; it is restricted by the conscience which is fair, reasonable and equitable, if it exceeds; it is termed as unfair, unreasonable, inequitable not just.

Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat

knowledge of the facts, but through ignorance of the law, is not recoverable if there be nothing against conscience in retaining it; and, secondly, money paid in ignor-ance of the facts is recoverable, provided there have been

Confession to a priest

that 'if any man confess his secret and hidden sins to the minister for the unburdening of his conscience, and to receive spiritual consolation and ease of mind from him,' he 'do not reveal to any person

Conscientize

Conscientize, mould and steel ones own conscience, 'Gandhiji did conscientize himself to say that if the policy of the Raj is satanic, sedition is his

Consideration

investigation into the motives of the parties. If the consideration, however, be so insufficient as to 'shock the conscience,' equity would quash the contract, upon the ground that such great inequality betokens mutual mistake, or fraud or

Constructive fraud

as the result of conduct which, though not amounting to actual fraud or deceit, is contrary to good conscience. Such conduct, which is described as 'constructive fraud', Nocton v. Lord Ashburton, 1914 AC 932.

Deathbed or Dying Declarations

partly on the awful situation of the dying person, which is considered to be as powerful over his conscience as the obligation of an oath, and partly on a supposed absence of interest in a person on

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