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Home Dictionary Name: imperfectimperfect self-defense
imperfect self-defense : a defense based on self-defense that does not shield the defendant from all liability but reduces the liability esp. because the defendant actually but unreasonably believed that he or she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury NOTE: Imperfect self-defense is not recognized in all jurisdictions. When it is successfully used in criminal cases it eliminates the element of malice, reducing the level of the offense from murder to manslaughter. ...
imperfect
imperfect : not perfect or complete: as a : not enforceable : enforceable only under certain conditions [an obligation] b : lacking an element otherwise required by law compare perfect ...
Imperfectibility
The state or quality of being imperfectible...
Imperfection
The quality or condition of being imperfect lack of perfection incompleteness deficiency fault or blemish...
Imperfectness
The state of being imperfect...
Imperfect obligations
Imperfect obligations, moral duties, such as charity, gratitude, etc., which cannot be enforced by law. For an instance of payment of a debt of honour out of a lunatic's estate under very special circum-stances, see Re Whitaker, (1889) 42 Ch D 119....
Imperfect trust
Imperfect trust, an executory trust, which has not been sufficiently declared or constituted, some-thing remaining to be done to perfect it, will not be enforced inequity if it is purely voluntary; see CONSIDERATION and Re Pryce, Neville v. Pryce, (1916) 86 LJ Ch 383; and see EXECUTED TRUST....
Mutilate
Mutilate, means 'something less than total destruc-tion' or 'to deface'. The law Lexicon, Reprint Edn., 1995 - 'Mutilate to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body; to deprive of some essential part; to render imperfect.' Words and Phrases, Permanent Edition, Vol. 27A - 'Mutilate' means something less than total destruction...... 'To mutilate' in the sense in which it is generally used by law writers and judges, means to render imperfect...... 'mutilate'.......means to destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect erroneously defined word as applied to articles such as books and manuscripts, rather than defining it as applied to the human body as meaning to cut off a limb or an essential part of the body', the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. X, 'Mutilate - To render (a thing, especially a record, book, etc.) imperfect by cutting off or destroying a part. 'Mutilated of things: Having some part cut off or destroyed wanting some portion essential to com...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Semi
A prefix signifying half and sometimes partly or imperfectly as semiannual half yearly semitransparent imperfectly transparent...
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