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Inefficacious

Not efficacious not having power to produce the effect desired inadequate incompetent inefficient impotent

Burden of proof

jury) regarding that fact or issue (the burden of proof is sometimes upon the defendant to show his incompetence, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 61.

Colourable

legislative power or, more frightfully, fraud on the Constitution, are expressions which merely mean that the legislature is incompetent to enact a particular law although the label of competency is stuck on it, and then it is

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Consideration

that such great inequality betokens mutual mistake, or fraud or undue advantage on the one side, or mental incompetency on the other, and, inequity, inadequacy maybe a reason for refusing specific performance, Pegler v. White, 33 Beav

Jus personarum

another (such as parents and children or guardians and wards) or having limited rights (such as aliens or incompetent persons), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 866.

Criminal Evidence Act

the proceedings. The Evidence Acts, 1851 and 1853, whichmade parties and spouses admissible witnesses (they having been previously incompetent on the groundof interest), expressly excepted criminal proceedings from its opertion; but a series of enactments dealing with

Imperitia

to liability in tort or liability under a contract calling for the rendering of services. Imperitus denoted an incompetent judge, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 756.

Infamous conduct in a professional respect

Council to denote contraventions of the practice of the profession, such as advertising as well as disgraceful or incompetent conduct; see Medical Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 90), s. 29.

Insurance

want of stores, want of provisions, want of nautical instruments, insufficiency of hands to navigate the vessel, or incompetency of the master. (6) All loss arising from unusual protraction of the voyage. (7) All loss to which

ward

representative, electoral, or administrative purposes 2 a : a person who by reason of incapacity (as minority or incompetency) is under the control of a guardian b : a person who by reason of incapacity is under

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