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The quality or state of being incapable incapability...
incapable
incapable : lacking legal qualification or power (as by reason of mental incompetence) see also incapacity ...
Incapability
The quality of being incapable incapacity...
Incapably
In an incapable manner...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
Impracticability
Impracticability, 'Impracticability' is a concept different from 'impossibility' for while the latter is absolute, the former introduces at all events some degree of reason and involves some regard for practice. 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical difficulties or other reasons it is incapable of being performed, Major Radha Krishan v. Union of India, AIR 1996 SC 3091 (3093): (1996) 3 SCC 507.The meaning of the term 'impracticable' in sub-rule (2) of Rule 14. In Major Radha Krishan case ((1996) 3 SCC 507: 1996 SCC (L&S) 761.) the Supreme Court has held: 'When the trial itself was legally impossible and impermissible the question of its being impracticable, in our view cannot or does not arise. 'Impracticability' is a concept different from 'impossibility' for while the latter is absolute, the former introduces at all events some degree of reason and involves some regard for practice. According to Webster's Third New International Dict...
Impracticable
Impracticable means not practicable, incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed at command 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical difficulties or other reasons it is incapable of being performed, Union of India v. Harjeet Singh Sandhu, (2001) 5 SCC 593.Is defined as incapable of being effected from lack of adequate means, impossible of performance, not feasible.Impracticable means impossible or unreasonabley difficult of performance, and is a much stronger term than expedient, Union of India v. Harjeet Singh Sandhu, (2001) 5 SCC 593.Is defined to mean impossible in practice to do or carry out, New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998, p. 918.Means not possible or not feasible, Law Lexicon, P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 2nd Edn., p. 889.Means not practicable words and phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 20, pp. 460-61).In matters of business a thing is said to be impossible when it is not practicable, and a thing is impractic-able ...
Indissolvable
Not dissolvable incapable of being dissolved or separated incapable of separation perpetually firm and binding indissoluble as an indissolvable bond of union...
Irreducible
Incapable of being reduced or brought into a different state incapable of restoration to its proper or normal condition as an irreducible hernia...
Irreversible
Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back incapable of being made to run backward as an irreversible engine an irreversible process an irreversible reaction...
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