Disinterested - Law Dictionary Search Results
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disinterested : free of any interest esp. of a pecuniary nature : impartial [a person to witness the will] ...
Disinterest
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Disinterested
Not influenced by regard to personal interest or advantage free from selfish motive having no relation of interest or feeling not biased or prejudiced as a disinterested decision or judge...
Disinterestedly
In a disinterested manner without bias or prejudice...
due diligence
due diligence 1 : such diligence as a reasonable person under the same circumstances would use : use of reasonable but not necessarily exhaustive efforts called also reasonable diligence NOTE: Due diligence is used most often in connection with the performance of a professional or fiduciary duty, or with regard to proceeding with a court action. Due care is used more often in connection with general tort actions. 2 a : the care that a prudent person might be expected to exercise in the examination and evaluation of risks affecting a business transaction b : the process of investigation carried on usually by a disinterested third party (as an accounting or law firm) on behalf of a party contemplating a business transaction (as a corporate acquisition or merger, loan of finances, or esp. purchase of securities) for the purpose of providing information with which to evaluate the advantages and risks involved [the greatest exposure…for failure to conduct adequate due diligence...
Disinterestedness
The state or quality of being disinterested impartiality...
Disinteresting
Uninteresting...
Impartial
Not partial not favoring one more than another treating all alike unprejudiced unbiased disinterested equitable fair just...
Arbitration
Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them.Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 100.Means any arbitration whether or not administered by permanent arbitral institution. [The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(a)]An arbitrator is a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred, Termes de la Ley.The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator, though both found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference in that manner which appears most just and equitable.An ar...
Fair
Fair, A 'fair' has been judically defined as meaning 'a periodical concourse of buyers and sellers in a place generally for sale and purchase.... at times or on occasions ordained by custom' (AIR 1969 SC 1100), ITC Ltd. v. Agricultural Produce Market Committee, (2002) 9 SCC 232 (294): AIR 2002 SC 852.Impartial; just equitable; disinterested; Free of bias or prejudica; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 615....
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