Jealousy - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: jealousyEvil eyed
Possessed of the supposed evil eye also looking with envy jealousy or bad design malicious...
Extinguishment
The act of extinguishing putting out or quenching or the state of being extinguished extinction suppression destruction nullification as the extinguishment of fire or flame of discord enmity or jealousy or of love or affection...
Jealoushood
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Jealousy
The quality of being jealous earnest concern or solicitude painful apprehension of rivalship in cases directly affecting ones happiness painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband wife or lover...
Client
Client [fr. cliens, Lat., said to contain the same element as they verb clueo, to hear of obey, and accordingly compared by Niebuhr with the German word hoeriger, a dependent], a person who seeks advice of a lawyer or commits his cause to the management of one, either in prosecuting a claim or defending a suit in a Court of justice; and for meaning, the word (except in relation to non-contentious business) includes any person who as principal or on behalf of another person retains or employs, or is about to retain or employ, a solicitor, and any person who is or may be liable to pay a solicitor's costs (English) (Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), s. 81). The relation between solicitor and client is a highly confidential one, and the power which his situation gives the former over the latter makes it impossible to be perfectly assured, in certain cases, whether in their transactions the client is a free agent, or under influence and imposition. A Court of Equity, therefore, ...
False prophecies
False prophecies, with intent to disturb the peace, were unlawful, as raising enthusiastic jealousies in the people and terrifying them with imaginary fears. They were punishable as misdemeanours by 5 Eliz. c. 15, repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1863....
Fraud
Fraud, a fraud is an act of deliberate deception with the design of securing something by taking unfair advantage of another. It is a deception in order to gain by another's loss. It is a cheating intended to got an advantage, S.P. Chengalvaraya Naidu v. Jagannath, AIR 1994 SC 853 (855): (1994) 1 SCC 1.A term used in a variety of meanings. At Common Law, fraud is actionable under the heading of deceit (q.v.).A knowing misrepresentation of the truth or con-cealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670.In equity and upon the equitable principles which are now applicable in any Court of law, fraud may be described as an infraction of the rules of fair dealing. For the action at law intention and representation (q.v.) are material. In equity an act or its consequences to the person aggrieved may be of greater importance than the intention of the defendant or any representation made to the plaintiff, and the same may b...
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