Inapplicability - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: inapplicabilityInapplicability
The quality of being inapplicable unfitness inapplicableness...
Inapplicable
Not applicable incapable of being applied not adapted not suitable as the argument is inapplicable to the case...
corporal punishment
corporal punishment : punishment inflicted on a person's body see also cruel and unusual punishment NOTE: The prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution imposes limits on the use of corporal punishment on convicted offenders and prisoners. The U.S. Supreme Court has found the Eighth Amendment to be inapplicable to the use of corporal punishment on schoolchildren. ...
Impertinent
Not pertinent not pertaining to the matter in hand having no bearing on the subject not to the point irrelevant inapplicable...
Misnomer
The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument as in a complaint or indictment any misnaming of a person or thing a wrong or inapplicable name or title...
Brevia magistralia
Brevia magistralia, official writs framed by the clerks in Chancery to meet new injuries, to which the old forms of actions were inapplicable, 4 Reeves, 426....
Commercial site
Commercial site, Commercial site' means (leaving out the inapplicable portion) any land which is used 'principally for the purposes of any trade, commerce, industry, manufacture or business', Chettiam Veettil Ammad v. Taluk Land Board, AIR 1979 SC 1573 (1584): (1980) 1 SCC 499: (1979) 3 SCR 839. [Kerala Land Reforms Act (1 of 1964), s. 2(5)]...
Distinguish
Distinguish, to point out an essential difference; to show that a case, cited as applicable, is inapplicable....
Good cause, sufficient case Difference
Good cause, sufficient case Difference, The differ-ence between the words 'good cause' for non-appearance in O. IX, R. 7 and 'sufficient cause' for the same purpose in O. IX, R. 13 as pointing to different criteria of 'goodness' or 'sufficiently' for succeeding in the two proceedings; and as there-fore furnishing a ground for the inapplicability of the rule of res judicata. As this ground was not seriously mentioned before us, we need not examine it in any detail but we might observe that we do not see any material difference between the facts to be established for satisfying the two tests of 'good cause' and 'sufficient cause'. We are unable to conceive of a 'good cause' which is not 'sufficient' as affording an explanation for non-appearance, nor conversely of a 'sufficient cause' which is not a good one and we would add that either of these is not different 'good and sufficient cause' which is used in this context in other statutes. If, on the other hand, there is any difference bet...
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
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