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Dictator

One who dictates one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others

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Dictation

The act of dictating the act or practice of prescribing also that which is dictated

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Negligence per se

in violation of a statute or valid municipal ordinance, or because it is so palpably opposed to the dictates of common prudence that it can be said without hesitation or doubt that no careful person would have

Occupier of a factory

or even a mere licensee, but he must, court think, have the right to occupy the property and dictate how it is to be managed, Emperor v. Jamshedji Naserwanji Modi, AIR 1931 Bom 308. The expression 'occupier'

prescription

praescription- praescriptio, from Latin, act of writing at the beginning, order, from praescribere to write at the beginning, dictate, order; partly from Latin praescription- praescriptio order] 1 : acquisition of an interest (as an easement) in real

Reasonable

knows or ought to know, Rena Drego v. Lalchand Soni, (1998) 3 SCC 341. Means rational, according to dictate of reason and not excessive or immoderate. If something is not per se preposterous or absurd, it must

Lex est dictamen rationis

Lex est dictamen rationis [Lat.], Law is the dictate of reason.

Judex bonus nihil ex arbitrio suo faciat, nec pro-positione domestica voluntatis, sed juxta leges et jura pronunciet

juxta leges et jura pronunciet [Lat.], A good judge does nothing from his own judgement, or from a dictate of private will; but he will pronounce according to law and justice.

Sing

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice as fancy may dictate or according to the notes of a song or tune or of a given part as alto tenor

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