Illusive - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: illusiveIllusively
In a illusive manner falsely...
Illusiveness
The quality of being illusive deceptiveness false show...
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 upon the content in which it is used, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 2629.Public policy, connotes some matter which concerns the public good and the public interest, Central Inland Water Transport Corporation Ltd. v. Broja Nath Ganguly, AIR 1986 SC 1571; Shri Parsar v. Municipal Board, (1997) 1 WLC 443.Public policy, demands that where fraud might have been 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 that illegality, then public policy demands that the defendant should not be allowed to take advantage of the position, Kedar Nath Motani v. Prahla...
Ponzi scheme
Ponzi scheme [Charles A. Ponzi (ca. 1882-1949), Italian-born American swindler] : an investment swindle in which early investors are paid with sums obtained from later ones in order to create the illusion of profitability ...
Cinematograph
an older name for a movie projector a machine combining magic lantern and kinetoscope features for projecting on a screen a series of pictures moved rapidly 25 to 50 frames per second and intermittently before an objective lens and producing by persistence of vision the illusion of continuous motion a moving picture projector also any of several other machines or devices producing moving pictorial effects Other older names for the movie projector are animatograph biograph bioscope electrograph electroscope kinematograph kinetoscope veriscope vitagraph vitascope zooumlgyroscope zooumlpraxiscope etc...
cloud cuckoo land
an imaginary place where fantasy and illusion predominate it is a place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality...
disabuse
To set free from mistakes to undeceive to disengage from fallacy or deception to set right often used with of as to disabuse one of his illusions...
disenchanting
freeing from illusion credulity overoptimism or false belief...
Disillusion
The act or process of freeing from an illusion or the state of being freed therefrom...
disillusioning
freeing from illusion or false belief...
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