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Disinclination

The state of being disinclined want of propensity desire or affection slight aversion or dislike indisposition...


Wrong

Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged ha...


bone idle

disinclined to work or exertion...


Disincline

To incline away the affections of to excite a slight aversion in to indispose to make unwilling to alienate...


do nothing

Doing nothing disinclined to work or exertion inactive idle lazy of people as a do nothing policy...


faineant

Doing nothing shiftless disinclined to work or exertion...


Lazy

Disinclined to action or exertion averse to labor idle shirking work...


Reluctant

Striving against opposed in desire unwilling disinclined loth...


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