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Omnes licentiam habent his, qu' pro se introducta sunt, renunciare

for his own benefit.) Similarly, Quilibet potest renunciare juri pro se introducto. 2 Inst. 183, (Every person may decline to take advantage of a law made for his own benefit.) See WAIVER.

Renounce

To declare against to reject or decline formally to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one to disclaim as to renounce a title

Withhold

Proviso] The dictionary meaning of the word 'withholding' is to hold back, to keep back, to restrain or decline to grant. The holding back or keeping back is not an isolated act but is a continuous process

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Sink

To fall by or as by the force of gravity to descend lower and lower to decline gradually to subside as a stone sinks in water waves rise and sink the sun sinks in the

Insurance

institutions of long standing, but since the alteration of the law in 1824, appear to be on the decline. The formation originated in a two-fold reason: 1st, that the underwriters charged premiums more than commensurate with the

Murder

may not regard this factor as having any relevance to the imposition of death penalty and may therefore decline to accord to it the status of 'special reasons', Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1982 SC

Passive resisters

a protest against the expenditure of a local authority in connection with an object of which they disapprove, decline to pay that part of a rate attributable to such expenditure, and by such 'passive resistance' force the

Public trustee

notice of any proposed appointment must be given to the beneficiaries; see s. 5. The Public Trustee may decline to accept any trust, but not on the ground only of the small value of the trust property;

Secularism and secularization

Secularism and secularization, there is a difference between secularism and secularisation. Secularisa-tion essentially is a process of decline in religious activity, belief, ways of thinking and in restructur-ing the institution. Though secularism is a political ideology

Sustainable use

components of biological diversity in such manner and at such rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of the biological diversity thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future

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