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Confidential information

Confidential information, means: (1) information furnished to the council by a government depart-ment upon terms (however expressed) which forbid the disclosure of the information to the public, and (2) information the disclosure of which to the public

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

Error qui non resistitur, approbatur

to property offered at auction, and, knowing his title, stands by and encourages the sale, or does not forbid it, will be bound by the sale. (See Maxims 137, 883, 884).

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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

Physician

a college of physicians prohibited by bye-law from so doing; bye-law 170 of the Royal College of Physicians forbids such recovery. See MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

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

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.

Mortuary

to 30l. 6s. 8d. where from 30l. to 40l.; and 10s. where exceeding 40l.; but the same Act forbids mortuaries for married, women or children, and prescribes that mortuaries for travellers be paid 'where they had their

Nefas

Nefas, means something that the gods forbid something against the law or custom, something that is wicked, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1054.

Reasonableness of classification

Reasonableness of classification, it is clear that Article 14 does not forbid reasonable classification of persons, objects and transactions by the legislature for the purpose of attaining specific ends. What

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