Emphatic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: emphaticemphatic
Uttered with emphasis made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice laying stress deserving of stress or emphasis forcible impressive strong as to remonstrate in an emphatic manner emphatic denials an emphatic word an emphatic tone emphatic reasoning...
emphatically
With emphasis forcibly in a striking manner or degree preeumlminently as he emphatically denied the allegations...
swear
swear swore sworn swear·ing [Old English swerian] vt 1 : to utter or take solemnly [ an oath] 2 a : to assert as true or promise under oath [a sworn affidavit] b : to assert or promise emphatically or earnestly [swore to uphold the constitution] 3 a : to put to an oath b : to bind by an oath vi : to take an oath ...
Emphasize
To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice to make emphatic as to emphasize a word or a phrase...
Emphaticalness
The quality of being emphatic emphasis...
Exclamation
A loud calling or crying out outcry loud or emphatic utterance vehement vociferation clamor that which is cried out as an expression of feeling sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion as in surprise pain grief joy anger etc...
VerbarMarcato
In a marked emphatic manner used adverbially as a direction...
overemphatic
Excessively emphatic...
Cannot
Cannot, The word 'cannot' emphatically connotes a situation of impasse. In Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 3rd Edn., at page 255, the word 'can' is defined as 'to be able; to have power or capacity'. The word 'cannot', therefore, would mean 'not to be able' or 'not to have the power or capacity'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., the word 'cannot' is defined to include a legal inability as well as physical impossibility, S.R. Bommai v. Union of India (1994) 3 SCC 1: AIR 1994 SC 1918 (1970). (Constitution of India, Art. 356)...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
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