Deviate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: deviatedeviation
The act of deviating a wandering from the way variation from the common way from an established rule etc departure as from the right course or the path of duty...
Deviator
One who or that which deviates...
Administrative deviation
Administrative deviation, means trustee's unauthorized departure from the terms of the trust, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 45....
Deviation
Deviation. (1) In the law of marine insurance, any departure without lawful excuse as defined by s. 49, ibid., from the due course of the voyage; it discharges the underwriters; see (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 41), ss. 45 and 46. (2) In the law of railways, a departure from plan in the construction of the line (cf. Railways Clauses Act, 1845, ss. 11-15)...
Stigma
Stigma, denotes loss of confidence by the employer amount to 'stigma', Kamal Kishore Lakshman v. Pan American World Airways, AIR 1987 SC 229: (1987) 1 SCC 146.Stigma, is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign etc., indicting that something is not considered normal or standard (Webster's New World Dictionary), Dipti Prakash Banerjee v. Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, (1999) 3 SCC 60.Stigma, is understood to be something that is detraction from the character or reputation of a person. It is blemish, imputation, mark or label indicating a deviation from a norm, mere description of background fact cannot be called as stigma. State of U.P. v. Ram Bachan Tripathi, AIR 2005 SC 3212.--in the absence of a statutory definition of the word 'stigma', its meaning as available in dictionaries. According to Webster's New World Dictionary it is something that detracts from the character or reputation of a person, a mark, sign, etc. in...
Obliquity
The condition of being oblique deviation from a right line deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity the amount of such deviation divergence as the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator...
Digression
The act of digressing or deviating esp from the main subject of a discourse hence a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject...
Eccentric
Deviating or departing from the center or from the line of a circle as an eccentric or elliptical orbit pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion...
reckless
reckless : characterized by the creation of a substantial and unjustifiable risk to the lives, safety, or rights of others and by a conscious and sometimes wanton and willful disregard for or indifference to that risk that is a gross deviation from the standard of care a reasonable person would exercise in like circumstances [a state of mind may be inferred from conduct] see also involuntary manslaughter at manslaughter reckless homicide at homicide, recklessness compare careless reck·less·ly adv ...
substandard
substandard : deviating from or falling short of a standard or norm: as a : of a quality lower than that prescribed by law b : constituting a greater than normal risk to an insurer ...
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