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New trial

case, more than in any other, the Court will be very reluctant to grant the new trial. For excessive damages and for the smallness of the damages, if out of all proportion to the injury. For the

Undue

603: (1975) 3 SCR 136. [Arbitration Act, 1940, s. 37(4)] 1. Not yet owed; not currently payable 2. Excessive or unwarranted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Surcharge

a second or further mortgage. See AUDIT. 1. An additional tax, charge, or cost usu. one that is excessive 2. An additional load or burden, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The expression 'surcharge' in the context of

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Sale of Goods Act, 1893

dealt with the rules as to time and place of delivery, the effect of delivery of short or excessive quantity, the rules as to delivery by instalments and as to delivery to a carrier, the right of

Restriction

connotes that limitations imposed on a person for enjoyment of right should not be arbitrary or of an excessive nature beyond what is required in interest of public. Reasonableness of a restriction depends upon nature of right

Redundant

in senses that it will not bear, the idea of too much is inseparable from it; 'superabundant, superfluous, excessive' is what the dictionary says, to treat it as meaning merely inappropriate is wrong. The authority is now

Profiteering

Profiteering, profiteering has been defined as: Taking advantage of unusual or exceptional circumstances to make excessive profits, Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, AIR 2003 SC 3724: (2003) 6 SCC 697 (774).

Fees

to be taken, under every circumstance, was generally handed down from steward to steward. When the steward made excessive charges, the copyholder might have brought an action on the case to recover the excess, and it has

Money lender

Court in which the action is brought either that the interest or the sum charged for expenses is excessive, and that the transaction is harsh and unconscionable, or is 'otherwise such that a Court of Equity would

Exorbitant

from the usual or due course going beyond the appointed rules or established limits of right or propriety excessive extravagant enormous inordinate as exorbitant appetites and passions exorbitant charges demands or claims

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