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Impair, when a construction is alleged to materially impair the value or utility of a building, the construction should be of such a nature as to substantially diminish the value of the building either from the commercial and monetary point of view or from the utilitarian aspect of the building, Om Pal v. Anand Swarup, (1988) 4 SCC 545: (1988) Supp 3 SCR 391.Impair, means to diminish the value of (property or property right). This term is commonly used in reference to diminishing the value of a contractual obligation to the point that the contract becomes invalid or a party loses the benefit of the contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 754....
Hearing impairment
Hearing impairment, means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (l)]...
Impairer
One who or that which impairs...
Impair
To make worse to diminish in quantity value excellence or strength to deteriorate as to impair health character the mind value...
impair
impair 1 : to damage or make worse by or as if by diminishing [ed health] 2 : to diminish the value of (property or property rights) ;specif : to diminish the value of (legal contractual obligations) to the point that a party loses the benefit of the contract or the contract otherwise becomes invalid [a law ing a state's own obligations was entitled to less deference "Gerald Gunther"] see also contract clause im·pair·ment n ...
disability
disability pl: -ties 1 : inability to pursue an occupation because of a physical or mental impairment ;specif : inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity because of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or to be of long continued or indefinite duration in accordance with the Social Security Act see also benefit Americans with Disabilities Act in the Important Laws section compare incapacity, occupational disease 2 : lack of legal qualification to do something [a minor's ] ...
Retrospective or retroactive law
Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 37A, pp. 224-225....
Retrospective law
Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward or contemplates the past; one which is made to affect acts or facts occurring, or rights occurring, before it came into force. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past. Retroactive statute means a statute which creates a new obligation on transactions or considerations already past or destroys or impairs vested rights, Darshan Singh v. Ram Pal Singh, AIR 1991 SC 1654: (1992) Supp 1 SCC 191....
Grievous hurt
Grievous hurt, Grievous hurt.-- The following kinds of hurt only are designated as 'grievous':First.--Emasculation.Secondly.--Permanent privation of the sight of either eye.Thirdly.--Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear.Fourthly.--Privation of any member or joint.Fifthly.--Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint.Sixthly.--Permanent disfiguration of the head or face.Seventhly.--Fracture or dislocation of a bone or tooth.Eigthly.--Any hurt which endangers life or which causes the sufferer to be during the space of twenty days in severe bodily pain, or unable to follow his ordinary pursuits. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 320)Means:(a) emasculation;(b) permanent privation of the sight of either eye;(c) permanent privation of the hearing of either ear;(d) privation of any member of joint;(e) destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint;(f) permanent disfiguration of the head or face; or(g) any hurt which endangers life. [Parsi M...
Coin
Coin [fr. coign, Fr.; cuneus, Lat., a wedge], a piece of metal stamped with certain marks and made current at a certain value. The coining of money is in all states the prerogative of the sovereign power; and, as money is the medium of commerce, it is the Crown's prerogative and monopoly, as arbiter of domestic commerce, to give it authority or make it current.By the (English) Coinage Offences Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 99), it was made a felony to counter-feit coin; to colour or gild, so as to make a resemblance to gold or silver coin; to impair or lighten coin; to have in unlawful possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to the suppression of the manufacturing, import in and uttering of counterfeit coin. See the (English) Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25), an Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention...
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