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Dominating, the word 'dominating'indicates something more than merely forming a majority, R.C. Poudyal v. Union of India, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 324: AIR 1993 SC 1804 (1830)....
dominant estate
dominant estate see estate ...
Dominant
Ruling governing prevailing controlling predominant as the dominant party church spirit power...
Domination
The act of dominating exercise of power in ruling dominion supremacy authority often arbitrary or insolent sway...
Domineer
To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway to play the master to be overbearing to tyrannize to bluster to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness often with over as to domineer over dependents...
Dominant heritage
Dominant heritage, defined. [Easements Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), s. 4]...
Dominant owner
Dominant owner, defined. [Easements Act, 1882 (5 of 1882), s. 4]...
Dominant tenement
Dominant tenement, a term used in the civil law, and thence in ours, and also in Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements...
Dominical
Dominical, that which denotes the Lord's Day, or Sunday. See SUNDAY....
Undue influence
Undue influence, Any influence, pressure, or domination in such circumstances that the person acting under that influence may be held not to have exercised his free and independent volition in regard to the act.As to gifts, see title SPIRITUALISM and Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655, and as to wills, see Parfitt v. Lawless, (1872) LR 2 P&M 462.In the case of benefits or advantages obtained in certain relationships, the existence of this influence is presumed, e.g., guardian and ward, a parent over a child upon or soon after attaining age and the possession of property, a guide or instructor, medical advisers, ministers or professors of religion, managers of business [Coomber v. Coomber, (1911) 1 Ch 174], attendants upon or advisers of aged and infirm people. In such cases, in regard to transactions inter vivos, the onus of proving absence of undue influence lies on the person claiming the benefit of the disposition or act, and in some cases, e.g., gifts by clients to their solicitors (...
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