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Majority

The quality or condition of being major or greater superiority

Indecisively

Without decision

Indecision

Lack of decision lack of settled purpose or of firmness indetermination wavering of mind irresolution vacillation hesitation

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VerbarFetwah

A written decision of a Turkish mufti some point of law also applied to opinions by certain other Islamic religious authorities

determination

determination : a decision of a court or administrative agency regarding an issue, case, or claim

Shall

Shall, a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the public injury in the event of

nondecisive

not crucial not comprising a decisive factor in a result Opposite of crucial and decisive

Judgment

Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to

Appeal

Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the

Minor

Minor, a person under twenty-one years of age. There is no legal distinction between a minor in this sense and an infant. See INFANT. Strictly speaking, in Scotland a minor is a person between the ages...

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