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Infirm

Not firm or sound weak feeble as an infirm body an infirm constitution...

Infirmity

The state of being infirm feebleness an imperfection or weakness esp an unsound unhealthy or debilitated state a disease a malady as infirmity of body or mind...

Infirmity, means physical weakness caused by age or disease; esp., in insurance law, an applicant's ill health that is poor enough to deter an insurance company from insuring the applicant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 782...

Resignation

Resignation, implies that the party resigning has been elected to the office which he resigns: a man cannot 'resign' that which he is not entitled to, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 2299.Resignation, is a term of legal art having legal connotations which describe certain legal results. It is characteristically, the voluntary surrender of a position by the person on resigning, made freely and not under duress and the word is generally defined as an act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession or position, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 77, p. 311.Resignation, must be unconditional and with an intention to operate as such, Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition) Vol. 37, p. 476.Means the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right as conveyed by the maxim. Resignatio est juris propril spontanea refutatio, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn.Resignation, must be made with intention of relinquishment the office accompanied by act of relinquishment, Prabha Aarti v. State of Utta...

Decrepitude

The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age infirm old age...

Bishop

Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by the king's cong' d' 'lire, or license to elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king, by letters-patent, may nominate whom he pleases. A bishop is said to be installed, and there are four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB 503, under title CONFIRMATION OF BISHOPS; (3) consecration, similar to institution; (4) installation, answering to induction. The bishop are the lords spiritual in Parliament: see HOUSE OF LORDS....

heir

heir : one who inherits or is entitled to succeed to the possession of property after the death of its owner: as a : one who by operation of law inherits the property and esp. the real property of a person who dies without leaving a valid will used in jurisdictions whose law is based on English common law called also heir at law heir general legal heir compare issue b in the civil law of Louisiana : one who succeeds to the estate of a person by will or esp. by operation of law see also intestacy, unworthy compare ancestor, devisee, legatee, next of kin, successor apparent heir : heir apparent in this entry beneficiary heir in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who exercises the benefit of inventory which limits the amount of his or her liability for the decedent's debts bod·i·ly heir : heir of the body in this entry forced heir : an heir who cannot be disinherited except for causes recognized by law ;esp in the civil law of Louisiana : an heir who because of yo...

Bedrid

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity...

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