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judicial act

: an act deriving from the normal exercise of judicial power within the proper jurisdiction used as a criterion for absolute judicial immunity

Experientialism

The doctrine that experience either that of ourselves or of others is the test or criterion of general knowledge opposed to intuitionalism

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overlearn

where it can be immediately recalled in experimental psychology to continue to learn beyond the point where the criterion of adequate learning has been reached

Shibboleth

A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites The Ephraimites not being able to pronounce sh called

Armorial bearings

on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. There is nothing, however, to

But for sex

has been developed to mean that no less favourable treatment is to be given to women on gender-based criterion which would favour the opposite sex and women will not be deliberately selected for less favourable treatment because

Certificate

those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333. As to when certificates and examined copies are

Equivalent post

Equivalent post, the true criterion for equivalence is the status and the nature and responsibility of the duties attached to the two posts.

Fee

many cases the costs are arbitrarily assessed. Fees are ordinarily uniform but absence of uniformity is not a criterion on which alone it can be said that a levy is in the nature of tax. In the

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