Incompleteness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: incompletenessIncompletely
In an incomplete manner...
Incompleteness
The state of being incomplete imperfectness defectiveness...
Incompletion
Lack of completion incompleteness...
Provision
Provision, a provision is a distinct rule or principle of law in a statute which governs the situation covered by it. So an incomplete idea, even though stated in the form of a s. of a statute, cannot be said to be a provision for, by its incompleteness, it cannot really be said to provide a whole rule or principle for observance by those concerned. A provision or law cannot therefore be said to exist if it is incomplete, for then it provides nothing, Chettiam Veettil Ammed v. Taluk Land Board, AIR 1979 SC 1573 (1577): (1980) 1 SCC 499....
evasive
evasive : tending or intending to evade NOTE: Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(a)(3), an evasive or incomplete answer to an interrogatory or to a question at a deposition is treated as a failure to answer and may be subject to an opponent's motion to compel an answer. eva·sive·ly adv eva·sive·ness n ...
impossibility
impossibility pl: -ties 1 : the quality or state of being impossible ;also : the affirmative defense that something (as performance) is impossible 2 : something impossible 3 : impossibility of performance in this entry fac·tu·al impossibility : impossibility based on factual circumstances ;specif : a partial defense to criminal liability based on the incompletion of an intended criminal act NOTE: Factual impossibility is not a complete defense and does allow prosecution for attempt or for another inchoate offense. For example, if the defendant constructed a bomb that failed to explode, factual impossibility would be a defense against murder charges, but not attempted murder. impossibility of per·for·mance 1 : a doctrine in contract law that a party may be released from liability for breach of contract for failing to perform an obligation that is rendered impossible by uncontrollable circumstances (as death or failure of the means of delivery) 2 : a defe...
patent medicine
patent medicine : a packaged nonprescription drug which is protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed ;also : any drug that is a proprietary ...
Balbuties
The defect of stammering also a kind of incomplete pronunciation...
Bubonocele
An inguinal hernia esp that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin forming a swelling there like a bubo...
constipated
having difficult or incomplete or infrequent evacuation of the bowels costive...
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