Skip to content

Groundly - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Judicial separation

Judicial separation, granted either to husband or wife on the ground of adultery, cruelty, rape, sodomy, bestiality, non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, or desertion without cause for two years and upwards [(English)...

Stockholder

Stockholder, includes--(i) any State Government; (ii) any statutory functionary; (iii) voluntary agencies including foreign voluntary agencies, and (iv) any other person identified by the Authority: Which participate in any manner in activities related to disaster management....

Public policy

Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns public good and the public interest. Expression does not admit of precise definition. Concept of 'public policy' is considered to be vague, susceptible to narrow or wider meaning depending...

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Reasonable and probable cause

Reasonable and probable cause, means genuine belief based on reasonable grounds that the proceedings are justified, ST Sahib v. Hassan Ghani Sahib, AIR 1957 Mad 646. Reasonable and probable cause, such grounds as justify any one...

Gardens

Gardens. The (English) Town Gardens Protection Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 13), provides for the protection of gardens and ornamental grounds vested in trustees, in squares and other public places, by transfer of such...

Coal mine

Coal mine, The expression 'no person, other than the Central Government or a government company or a corporation owned, managed or control in India, in any form' is semantically sweeping and is wide in meaning so...

Agricultural land

Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with...

mistake

mistake 1 : an unintentional error esp. in legal procedure or form that does not indicate bad faith and that commonly warrants excuse or relief by the court [the court's power to revise a judgment because...

Graveyard

Graveyard, Under the Mahomedan Law the graveyards may be of two kinds - a family or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses...

Well

Well, means a well sunk for the search of extraction of ground water by any user, and includes as open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, collector well or infiltration gallery,...

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial