Deviation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: deviationAdministrative 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)...
Deviator
One who or that which deviates...
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...
parity check
The act or process of testing whether a byte or other data structure has an even or odd number of bits set to the value of 1 it is used primarily to detect errors in data especially in memory banks or in data transmitted over a communications line The parity can be changed by assigning one bit in each data structure as the parity bit so that the total number of bits set to the value of 1 is odd odd parity or even even parity If parity is used for error checking the writing and reading systems must first agree on which type of parity odd or even to use if the reading system detects a deviation from the agreed parity it signals an error to be handled by the error handling processes of the system...
Prevarication
The act of prevaricating shuffling or quibbling to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth a deviation from the truth and fair dealing...
Self consistent
Consistent with ones self or with itself not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided logically consistent throughout having each part consistent with the rest...
Solecism
An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence esp deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax...
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