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Exemplary

Serving as a pattern deserving to be proposed for imitation commendable as an exemplary person exemplary conduct

Cogitationis penam nemo meretur

Cogitationis penam nemo meretur [Lat.], No man deserves punishment for a thought.

Transfer

the land and his son files application for recovery of possession within 12 years of surrender, his application deserves to be allowed, Brisa Munda v. Chando Kumari, AIR 1996 SC 704. [Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (6 of 1908),

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Sanction and direction

existence of a prima facie case. In the case of a direction, a further element that the accused deserves to be prosecuted is involved, Rameshwar Bhartia v. State of Assam, AIR 1952 SC 405.

Quantum meruit

under R.S.C. Ord. III., r. 6; Lagos v. Gunwaldt, (1910)1 KB 41. Means as much as he has deserved. The reasonable value of services; damages awarded in an amount considered reasonable to compensate a person who had

Letters of safe-conduct

in Chancery, or else are of no effect-the sovereign being the best judge of such emergencies as may deserve exemption from the general law of arms, Chitty's Prerogatives of the Crown, p. 48, and Vattel by Chit.

award

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 :

Bracton

instruction or amusement from the study of this scientific treatise on our ancient laws and customs. Bracton was deservedly looked up to as the first source of legal knowledge, even down to the time of Sir Edward

Satire

up vice or folly to reprobation a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke an invective poem as the Satires of Juvenal

Respectability

The state or quality of being respectable the state or quality which deserves or commands respect

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