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Home Dictionary Name: diminishdiminished capacity
diminished capacity 1 : an abnormal mental condition that renders a person unable to form the specific intent necessary for the commission of a crime (as first-degree murder) but that does not amount to insanity called also diminished responsibility partial insanity compare insanity, irresistible impulse test, m'naghten test, substantial capacity test 2 a : a defense based on a claim of diminished capacity b : the doctrine that diminished capacity may negate an element of a crime NOTE: If diminished capacity is shown, negating an element of the crime with which a defendant is charged, the defendant can only be convicted of a lesser offense that does not include the element. ...
Diminishable
Capable of being diminished or lessened...
Diminisher
One who or that which diminishes anything...
Diminishingly
In a manner to diminish...
impair
impair 1 : to damage or make worse by or as if by diminishing [ed health] 2 : to diminish the value of (property or property rights) ;specif : to diminish the value of (legal contractual obligations) to the point that a party loses the benefit of the contract or the contract otherwise becomes invalid [a law ing a state's own obligations was entitled to less deference "Gerald Gunther"] see also contract clause im·pair·ment n ...
Impair
Impair, when a construction is alleged to materially impair the value or utility of a building, the construction should be of such a nature as to substantially diminish the value of the building either from the commercial and monetary point of view or from the utilitarian aspect of the building, Om Pal v. Anand Swarup, (1988) 4 SCC 545: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 391.Impair, means to diminish the value of (property or property right). This term is commonly used in reference to diminishing the value of a contractual obligation to the point that the contract becomes invalid or a party loses the benefit of the contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 754....
Diminution
The act of diminishing or of making or becoming less state of being diminished reduction in size quantity or degree opposed to augmentation or increase...
Minishment
The act of diminishing or the state of being diminished diminution...
Abatuda, or Abatude
Abatuda, or Abatude, anything diminished. Moneta abatuda is money clipped or diminished in value, Du Cange's Glos. Used in old records....
Damnum absque injuria
Damnum absque injuria, means if the law gives no remedy, there is 'damnum absque injuria' or damage without the right to recompense, Halsbury's Laws of England 12(1), para 802, p. 264.Damnum absque injuri', [a loss without a wrongful act). Loss without such injury as would give rise to an action for damages against the offending party. This is not actionable. Damnum sine injuri' esse potest, Lofft, 112. Thus, if I have a mill, and a neighbour builds another mill upon his own land, per quod the profit of my mill is diminished, yet no action lies against him, for every one may lawfully erect a mill upon his own ground; though if I have a mill by prescription on my own land, and another erects a new mill, which draws away some portion of the stream from mine, so as to diminish its former power, an action of trespass on the case will lie against him; and if I build a house on the edge of my lands, my neighbour may at any time within twenty years block out my light by any erection he please...
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