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Deserve

Deserve, 'deserve' means 'to have a rightful claim' or 'a just claim', Hameedia Hardware Stores v. B. Mohanlal Sowcar, AIR 1988 SC 1060 (1061): (1988) 2 SCC 513.--To be entitled to by merit, to warrant, be worthy of, to be worthy of reward, justly, accordingly to what is deserved....


Deserve

To earn by service to be worthy of something due either good or evil to merit to be entitled to as the laborer deserves his wages a work of value deserves praise...


Deserver

One who deserves...


quantum meruit

quantum meruit [Latin, as much as he/she deserved] 1 : a claim or count grounded on an implied contract that the defendant would pay the plaintiff as much as deserved for services or materials provided ;specif : a count in a common-law action for assumpsit claiming payment of the value of labor provided 2 : a theory or doctrine that permits recovery by a party for services or materials provided despite the absence of an express contract when they were accepted and used by the defendant under circumstances which gave reasonable notice that the plaintiff expected to be paid for them compare unjust enrichment ...


Damnable

Liable to damnation deserving or for which one deserves to be damned of a damning nature...


Campfight

Campfight, the trial of a cause by combat of two champions in the field. If it were a crime deserving death, the campfight was for life or death; if the offence deserved only imprisonment, the campfight was accomplished when one combatant had subdued the other, so as either to make him yield or take him a prisoner. The accused might choose another to fight in his stead, but the accuser was obliged to fight in his own person. See BATTEL, WAGER OF. The combatants were armed with similar weapons, 3 Inst. 221....


award

award [Anglo-French awarder agarder to look at, decide on, impose, alteration of Old French esguarder to look at, from es-, intensive prefix + guarder to guard] 1 : to give in accordance with a judicial or administrative determination or decision [ punitive damages] 2 : to grant as deserved [ed the contract to the lowest bidder] n 1 : a judgment or final decision: as a : arbitrator's award b : a formal decision regarding benefits in a workers' compensation claim 2 : something granted esp. on the basis of merit or entitlement: as a : a contract won by a successful bidder b : relief usually in the form of money (as damages or alimony) granted to a party in a legal proceeding ...


culpable

culpable : deserving condemnation or blame as wrong or harmful cul·pa·bil·i·ty [kəl-pə-bi-lə-tē] n cul·pa·ble·ness n cul·pa·bly adv ...


high crime

high crime : a crime of infamous nature contrary to public morality but not technically constituting a felony ;specif : an offense that the U.S. Senate deems to constitute an adequate ground for removal of the president, vice president, or any civil officer as a person unfit to hold public office and deserving of impeachment ...


meritorious

meritorious 1 : deserving of honor or esteem 2 : having merit [a claim] ...


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