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Dishonestly, The word dishonestly is defined by s. 24 of Indian Penal Code. A person who does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person, Dr. S. Dutt v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1966 SC 523: (1966) 1 SCR 493.A person is said to do a thing dishonestly when he does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss to another person. In the case of illegal seizures and impounding of cattle, the person seizing the cattle does not gain anything. He simply takes the cattle to the pound. He does not use them for his purpose, Ramratan v. State of Bihar, AIR 1965 SC 926 (931). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 378: Cattle Trespass Act, 1871, s. 10)--Whoever does anything with the intention of causing wrongful gain to one person or wrongful loss of another person, is said to do that thing dishonestly (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 24)....
Dishonest
Dishonest, means dishonestly, i.e., that he has ascribed to the Judge a conduct which would be most reprehensible, C.K. Daphtary v. O.P. Gupta, (1971) 1 SCC 626: AIR 1971 SC 1132. [Contempt of Courts Act, (32 of 1952)]...
Dishonest intention
Dishonest intention, a person can be said to have 'dishonest intention' if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so gaining is not legally entitled or to cause loss, by wrongful means, of property to which the person so losing is legally entitled, K.N. Mehra v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1957 SC 369 (372): 1957 SCR 623. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 378)...
Dishonestly
In a dishonest manner...
Making a false document
Making a false document, A person is said to make a false document-who dishonestly or fraudulently makes, signs, seals or executes a document with the intention of causing it to be believed that such document was made, signed or sealed by a competent authority or who without lawful authority, dishonestly or fraudulently, by cancellation or otherwise, alters a document in any material part thereof or who dishonestly or fraudulently causes any person to sign, seal or execute or alter a document knowing that such person by reason of unsoundness of mind or intoxication cannot or by reason of deception does not know the nature of the document or the nature of alteration [Indian Penal Code, s. 464]...
Cheating
Cheating, Cheating is defined as whoever, by deceiving any person, fraudulently or dishonestly induces the person so deceived to deliver any property to any person or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or intentionally induces the person so deceived to do or omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived, and which act or omission causes or is likely to cause damage or harm to that, person in body mind, reputation or property, is said to 'cheat' in s. 415 of the IPC and the ingredients for the offence are:(i) there should be fraudulent or dishonest inducement of a person by deceiving him;(ii) (a) the person so induced should be intentionally induced to deliver any property to any person or to consent that any person shall retain any property, or(b) the person so induced should be intentionally induced to do or to omit to do anything which he would not do or omit if he were not so deceived; and(iii) In cases covered by the second part of ...
Public interest
Public interest, means an act beneficial to the general public. It means action necessarily taken for public purpose, Babu Ram Verma v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1971) All LJ 653: (1971) Serv LR 649: (1971) 2 Lab LJ 235: (1971) Lab IC 1162 (All).Means of concern or advantage to people as a whole, T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Means retention of honest and efficient employees and weeding of inefficient and dishonest, Indira Saxena v. Municipal Council, 1995 Jab LJ 28.Means those interests which concern the public at large, Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., Reprint 2000, at p. 1557). See also T.M.A. Pai Foundation v. State of Karnataka, (2002) 8 SCC 481.Refers to cases where the interests of public adminis-tration require the retirement of a government servant who with the passage of years has pre-maturely ceased to possess the standard of efficiency, competence and utility called for by the government service to which he belongs. No stigmas or implication of misbehav...
oppression
oppression : an unjust or excessive exercise of power: as a : unlawful, wrongful, or corrupt exercise of authority by a public official acting under color of authority that causes a person harm b : dishonest, unfair, wrongful, or burdensome conduct by corporate directors or majority shareholders that entitles minority shareholders to compel involuntary dissolution of the corporation c : inequality of bargaining power resulting in one party's lack of ability to negotiate or exercise meaningful choice see also unconscionability op·pres·sive [ə-pre-siv] adj ...
Covinous
Deceitful collusive fraudulent dishonest...
Cucking stool
A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds and also dishonest tradesmen by fastening them in it usually in front of their doors to be pelted and hooted at by the mob but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked called also a castigatory a tumbrel and a trebuchet and often but not so correctly a ducking stool...
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