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Defiant

Full of defiance bold insolent as a defiant spirit or act

be succinctly referred to as Wednesbury unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the

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Wager

Court of Appeal, that a turf commission-agent might recover the amount of lost bets paid by him, in defiance of a revocation of the authority to make them; but the correctness of this decision was much questioned,

Lynch-law

the procedure whereby an offender is tried and executed by a self-appointed body of citizens acting generally in defiance of the law, alleging as an excuse either the slowness of the regular legal procedure, or the neglect

Injunction

a proper case a defendant may be ordered to pull down a building which he has erected in defiance of the plaintiff's right, even though the building has been completed before the writ was issued. As to

Glorification in any manner

s. 5. In case of prosecution under s. 6(2) r/w s. 6(3), what would be punishable is such defiance or contravention of the order of the Collector and District Magistrate, as has the effect of the glorification

Chartel or cartel

Chartel or cartel [fr. Cartel, Fr.], a letter of defiance or challenge to a single combat; also, an instrument or writing between two states for settling the exchange

Provoke

or ambition hence commonly to incite as a person to action by a challenge by taunts or by defiance to exasperate to irritate to offend intolerably to cause to retaliate

Dareful

Full of daring or of defiance adventurous

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