Skip to content

Impact - 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.

Circumstances

disorders, tensions, religious, racial, regional or linguistic or other such commotions, which might by their pre-existence accentuate the impact of such activities affecting the security of the country or a part of it or the public order,

disparate treatment

others for discriminatory reasons (as race, religion, national origin, sex, or disability) compare bona fide occupational qualification, disparate impact

Change in fact-situation

Change in fact-situation, a substantial change which has a direct impact on the earlier decision and not merely cosmetic changes which are of little or no consequence, State of

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Aggression

be explained by a strait-jacket formula but will depend on the fact situation of every case and its impact, Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India, (2005) 5 SCC 665. [Constitution of India, Article 335] Aggression, as adopted

laser printer

It is capable of high speed production of images with a higher resolution than those from dot matrix impact printers

Hydrodynamometer

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact

Coherer

influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed

buffeted

struck repeatedly used especially of impact from winds and sometimes metaphorically as buffeted by criticism

suspect class

scrutiny of a classification that discriminates against or otherwise burdens or affects them [a classification that does not impact a suspect class or impinge upon a fundamental constitutional right will be upheld if it is rationally related

regulatory taking

being furthered by the regulation, the breadth or specificity of the regulation, and the extent of the regulation's impact on the owner's property rights and expectations. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an owner can bring

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial