Erosion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: erosionCorrasion
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream but also by the solvent action of the water...
Erose
Irregular or uneven as if eaten or worn away...
Erosion
The act or operation of eroding or eating away...
Erosive
That erodes or gradually eats away tending to erode corrosive...
Peneplain
A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain but not wholly devoid of hills a base level plain...
Void
Void, 'the erosion of the distinction between juris-dictional errors and non-jurisdictional errors has, correspondingly eroded the distinction between void and voidable decision. The courts have become increasingly impatient with the distinction, to the extent that (1) All official decisions are presumed to be valid until set aside or otherwise held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction', Judicial Review of Administrative Action, De Smith, Woolf and Jowell, 1995 Edn., p. 259-60.Void, denotes 'if an act or decision, or an order or other instrument is invalid, it should, in principal be null and void for all purposes; and it has been said that there are no degrees of nullity. Even though such an act is wrong and lacking in jurisdiction, however, it subsists and remains fullyeffective unless and until it is set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction. Until its validity is challenged, its legality is preserved', Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., (Re-issue), Vol. 1(1), ...
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