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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.

No cause for such refusal

to grant conversion of partly paid-up shares into fully paid-up shares and the company sets up some cause declining to carry out the conversion the Tribunal is authorised to adjudicate whether the cause set up by the

Impacted area

an influx of federal employees who are working on a federal project or activity, but the tax revenue declines due to the U.S. Government's immunity from local taxes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 754.

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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

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

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

Permissive possession

of the owner, or of the 'bhumidhar'. If on being asked to deliver possession, the mortgagee refuses or declines to do so, it would give rise to a cause of action on the date on which possession

Retrogressive

Tending to retrograde going or moving backward declining from a better to a worse state

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

Shakeout

an elimination of weak or non-productive businesses in an industry, especially, during a period of intense competition or declining prices, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1379

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