Euphemism - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: euphemismEuphemize
To express by a euphemism or in delicate language to make use of euphemistic expressions...
Euphemistic
Pertaining to euphemism containing a euphemism softened in expression...
BM
an abbreviation for bowel movement used as an informal euphemism especially in hospitals...
bureaucratese
the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials officialese it is characterized by euphemisms circumlocutions vague abstractions and circumlocutions...
developing
not industrialized but undergoing industrialization sometimes used as a euphemism for undeveloped of nations...
Euphemism
A figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is softened a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression a mild name for something disagreeable...
officialese
the formal and often obscure style of writing characteristic of some government officials bureaucratese it is characterized by euphemisms circumlocutions vague abstractions and circumlocutions...
Gandharva marriage
Gandharva marriage, The Gandharva marriage is the voluntary union of a youth and a damsel which springs from desire and sensual inclination. It has at times been erroneously described as an euphemism for concubinage. This view is based on a total misconception of the leading texts of the Smritis. It may be noted that the essential marriage ceremonies are as much a requisite part of this form of marriage as of any other unless it is shown that some modification of those ceremonies has been introduced by custom in any particular community or caste.(Mulla's Hindu Law, 12th Edn., at p. 605), Bhaurao Shankar Laokande v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1965 SC 1564 (1566): (1965) 2 SCR 837....
Royalty
Royalty, a payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. It is usually a payment of money, but may be a payment in kind, that is, of part of the produce of the exercise of the right, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, 2nd End., p. 1595.In the legal world, is known as the equivalent or translation of jura 'regalia' or 'jura regia'. Royal rights and prerogatives of a sovereign are covered thereunder. In its secondary sense, the word 'royalty' would signify, as in mining leases, that part of the reddendum, variable thought, payable in cash or kind, for rights and privileges obtained, Inderjeet Singh Sial v. Karam Chand Thapar, (1995) 6 SCC 166.Royalty, is not a tax. Simply because the royalty is levied by reference to the quantity of the minerals produced and the impugned cess too is quantified by taking into consideration the same quantity of the mineral produced, the latter does no...
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