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Fraud on a power
concealment by which one person obtains an advantage against conscience over another or which equity or public policy forbids as being prejudicial to another, Wester's Third New International Dictionary. Is defined as an intentional perversion of truth
Directory Statute
Directory Statute. The term directory, when applied to a statute (or part of a statute) which enjoins or forbids the doing of certain acts, is used in two different senses:- (I) As opposed to declaratory, i.e., a
Estoppel
v. Sukhdarshan Dayal, (1973) 1 SCC 294: AIR 1973 SC 814. Estoppel is a rule of equity which forbids truth being pleaded or representation, on which faith another has acted to his detriment, being retracted, Commis-sioner of
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Exoneratione secta ad curiam baron
issued by the guardian of the Crown's ward, and addressed to the sheriff or stewards of the Court, forbidding them to distrain him, etc., for not doing suit of Court, etc., Ibid.
Felo de se
the hours of burial, and allowing, by permission of the ordinary, a religious service, the Prayer Book expressly forbidding the use of the Burial Service therein contained in the case of those who die 'laying violent hands
Fraud
concealment by which one person obtains an advantage against conscience over another or which equity or public policy forbids as being prejudicial to another. In Black's Legal Dictionary, fraud is defined as an intentional perversion of truth
Veto
Veto, a prohibition, or the right of forbidding; especially applied to the royal power of refusing assent to a Bill in Parliament passed by the two
Imbargo
Imbargo. See EMBARGO. An official order forbidding something esp. trade with another country.
Lex est ratio summa, qua jubet qua sunt utilia et necessaria, et cntraria prohibet
cntraria prohibet [Lat.], Law is the highest reason which commands those things which are useful and necessary, and forbids what is contrary thereto.
Lex est sanctio sancta, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria
sanctio sancta, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria [Lat.], Law is a sacred sanction, commanding what is proper and forbidding what is not
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