Illegal Practices - Law Dictionary Search Results
redlining
redlining 1 : the illegal and discriminatory practice of refusing to lend to or insure people in a particular area (as a slum) … redlining 1 : the illegal and discriminatory practice of refusing to lend to or insure people in a particular area (as a slum) 2 : the
Election Commissioners
inquire into the report made by judges on the trial of an election petition (q.v.) that corrupt and illegal practices took place on an extensive scale at an election. The Commissioners report to Parliament, whereupon the constituency may
special counsel
counsel appointed to fill a particular need ;specif cap : a government official charged with protecting employees from illegal practices by employers and esp. from employer reprisal for whistleblowing
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License
authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business which without such permission would be illegal a grant of permission as a license to preach to practice medicine to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors … business which without such permission would be illegal a grant of permission as a license to preach to practice medicine to sell gunpowder or intoxicating liquors
unfair labor practice
against an employee; 8) refusal of a labor organization to bargain collectively with an employer; 9) engaging in illegal strikes or boycotts by a labor organization; 10) excessive or discriminatory initiation fees for a labor organization; 11) … employer or labor organization that violate a right or protection under applicable labor laws NOTE: The unfair labor practices that are specified in the National Labor Relations Act are the following: 1) the interference, restraint, or coercion
Torture
been obsolete in English law, and the better opinion is that torture in the primary sense is wholly illegal in England as declared by the judges in 1628, when it was proposed to torture Felton, the assassin … torture Felton, the assassin of Buckingham, to make him disclose his accomplices. It was , however, frequently the practice to torture by virtue of Royal Warrant, a warrant of 1640, for instance (Jardine, p. 108), directing the
Ultra vires
'ultra vires' means 'beyond powers' or 'lack of power'. The term 'ultra virus' signifies a concept distinct from illegality, Anand Prakash v. Assistant Registrar of Co-op. Society, AIR 1968 All 22 (24). Ultra vires, implies, an absence … jurisdiction or competency. The use of such expressions is no safer guide that the order is for all practical purpose non est, Madhavan Pillai v. State of Kerala, AIR 1966 Ker 212 (FB): (1965) ILR 2 Ker
Void
a relative rather than an absolute meaning. It only conveys the Idea that the order is invalid or illegal. It can be avoided. There are degrees of invalidity, depending upon the gravity of the infirmity, as to … Pradesh, AIR 1955 SC 781: (1955) 2 SCR 589. The meaning of the word 'void' is for all practical purposes the same in both clauses namely, that the law is ineffectual and nugatory and devoid of any
Public policy
principles, it must be able on the ground of public policy or some other like ground to suppress practices which, under every new disguises, seek to weaken or negative them, History of English Law, Vol. 111, p. … contemplated but was not perpetrated, the defendants should not be allowed to perpetrate a new fraud. If the illegality of the transaction is trivial or venial and the plaintiff is not required to rest his case upon
Puffer
the sale of land, and enacts that all sales of land where a puffer has bid shall be illegal unless a right of bidding on behalf of the owner shall have been reserved; that the conditions of … that if a right to bid be reserved, the seller or one puffer may bid; and that the practice of opening bidding, formerly sanctioned by courts of equity, shall be discontinued. As to sale of goods by
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