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Forbidding

Repelling approach repulsive raising abhorrence aversion or dislike disagreeable prohibiting or interdicting as a forbidding aspect a forbidding formality a forbidding air...


Prohibitory

Tending to prohibit forbid or exclude implying prohibition forbidding as a prohibitory law a prohibitory price...


Prohibit

Prohibit, means to hold back; to forbid; to interdict; to prevent, hinder or debar; to forbid or prevent from doing something. The term prohibit postul-ates negative command, Sujatha Touring Talkies v. State, AIR 1986 Kant 21....


Prohibition

Prohibition, a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there depending, on the suggestion that the cognizance thereof belongs not to such Court. It is a remedy provided by the Common Law against the encroachment of jurisdiction.The writ issued not only out of the King's Bench, but also out of the Courts of Chancery, Exchequer, and Common Pleas, and now issues out of the High Court of Justice, on application by motion supported by affidavits for a rule to show cause (Rules 70, 71, of Crown Office Rules, 1906), to any inferior Court concerning itself with any matter not within its jurisdiction. If either the judge or a party proceed after such prohibition, an attachment may be had against them for contempt, at the discretion of the Court that awarded it; and an action for damages will lie against them, by the party injured.Sometimes the point is too doubtful to be decided upon motion, and the party applying is directed to declare in prohibition, setting forth concisely so much o...


Reasonable classification

Reasonable classification, it is now well established that while Article 14 forbids class legislation, it does not forbid reasonable classification for the purposes of legislation. The classification may be founded on different bases; namely, geographical, or according to objects or occupations or the like. What is necessary is that there must be a nexus between the basis of classification and the object of the Act under consideration, Express Newspaper (Private) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 578....


ban

ban banned ban·ning : to prohibit or forbid esp. by legal means (as by statute or order) [ solicitation] ;also : to prohibit the use, performance, or distribution of [legislation to DDT] n : prohibition esp. by statute or order [a on automatic weapons] ...


conscience

conscience : exempting persons whose religious beliefs forbid compliance [ laws, which allow physicians…to refuse to participate in abortions "W. J. Curran"] ...


establishment clause

establishment clause often cap E&C : a clause in the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from establishing a state religion see also Amendment I to the Constitution in the back matter compare free exercise clause ...


ex post facto clause

ex post facto clause often cap E&P&F&C : the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from passing any ex post facto laws ...


incontestability clause

incontestability clause : a clause in an insurance policy that forbids the insurer from disputing the policy (as on the ground that the insured made false statements) after a set period of time ...


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