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Home Dictionary Name: disjunctivedisjunctive allegation
disjunctive allegation : an allegation that is unclear in meaning because it includes the word or in charging the defendant with two or more wrongful acts NOTE: Disjunctive allegations are inadmissible. ...
Disjunction
The act of disjoining disunion separation a parting as the disjunction of soul and body...
Disjunctively
In a disjunctive manner separately...
Apposition
Apposition, A word is said to be used in apposition to another in contradistinction to be used disjunctively; thus, if two nouns occur with the word 'or' between them, if the word 'or' be taken to mean 'otherwise called' the second noun is used in apposition. But if it be taken to show that the two words mean two different things, the words are said to be used disjunctively....
Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption
Or is otherwise unfit for human consumption, the words 'or' is otherwise unfit for human consumption are disjunctive of the rest of the words preceding them. It relates to a distinct and separate class altogether. The clause 'or is otherwise unfit for human consumption' is residuary provision which would apply to a case not covered by or falling squarely within the clauses preceding it. If the phrase is to be read disjunctively the mere proof of the article of food being 'filthy, putrid, rotten,decomposed.... or insect infested' would be per se sufficient to bring within the purview of theword 'adulterated' as defined in sub-clause (f) and it would not be necessary in such a case toprove further that the article of food was unfit for human consumption, Municipal Corporation v. Tek Chand Bhatia, (1980) 1 SCC 158: AIR 1980 SC 360 (362). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 2(1)(f)]...
Or, And
Or, And, it would be noticed that the word used after clause (g) and before clause (h) is 'or'. It may mean 'and' in the context, or remain 'or' in the disjunctive sense in a given case. If any further relief is asked for in addition to any of the reliefs mentioned in clauses (a) to (g) as the nature of the case may require, then the word 'or' would mean 'and'. But if the relief asked for is other relief which is not by way of a consequential or additional relief to any of the reliefs in terms of clause (a) to (g), the word 'or' will mean 'or', Charan Singh v. Darshan Singh, AIR 1975 SC 371: (1975) 3 SCR 48: (1975) 1 SCC 298.The word 'or' is normally disjunctive and 'and' is normally conjunctive, but when other part of the same statute or the clear intention of it obligates, they are read as vice versa, Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Tek Chand Bhatia, AIR 1980 SC 360: (1980) 1 SCC 158: (1980) 1 SCR 910....
Discrete
Separate distinct disjunct...
Discretely
Separately disjunctively...
Discretion
Disjunction separation...
Discretive
Marking distinction or separation disjunctive...
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