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Education

Manual; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education', and under various Acts; Halsbury's Laws of England, and supplements; and the titles CONSCIENCE CLAUSE; COWPER-TEMPLE CLAUSE; KENYON-SLANEY CLAUSE; ENDOWED SCHOOLS; INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; REFORMATORY SCHOOLS; and the four titles next

Ex 'quo et bono

Ex 'quo et bono (in equity and good conscience).

Fraud

defined as an act or omission to act or concealment by which one person obtains an advantage against conscience over another or which equity or public policy forbids as being prejudicial to another. In Black's Legal Dictionary,

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Fraud on a power

defined as an act or omission to act or concealment by which one person obtains an advantage against conscience over another or which equity or public policy forbids as being prejudicial to another, Wester's Third New International

L'sione fidei, suits pro

L'sione fidei, suits pro, proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts for spiritual offences against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. By entertaining them the clergy attempted to turn the

Immoral

deviating from the standard norms of life. It may also be said that what is repugnant to good conscience is immoral. Its varying content depends upon time, place and the stage of civilization of a particular society,

Immoral contracts

in consideration of past seduction or cohabitation, can be enforced; not because it is binding in honour and conscience, for such a reason is not sufficient, but because it is a specialty (see CONTRACT), and has not

Independent member

century, meant independent of the government able to vote as he pleased and is only governed by his conscience as to the regularity of his attendance in the House, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments

Injunction

assertion of a right, or perpetually res-trained from the commission of an act contrary to equity and good conscience. As to mandatory injunctions, see post. See Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), s. 37. Prior to

Judex habere debet duos sales: salem sapientia, ne sit insipidus, et salem conscientia, ne sit diabolus

a judge should have two salts: the salt of wisdom, lest he be insipid; and the salt of conscience, lest he be devilish.

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