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Home Dictionary Name: jurisprudence Page: 7Confucianism
The political morality taught by Confucius and his disciples which forms the basis of the Chinese jurisprudence and education It can hardly be called a religion as it does not inculcate the worship of any god...
Juridic
Pertaining to a judge or to jurisprudence acting in the distribution of justice used in courts of law according to law legal as juridical law...
Jurisconsult
A man learned in the civil law an expert in juridical science a professor of jurisprudence a jurist...
Jurisprudence
The science of juridical law the knowledge of the laws customs and rights of men in a state or community necessary for the due administration of justice...
Jurisprudent
Understanding law skilled in jurisprudence...
Juristic
Of or pertaining to a jurist to the legal profession or to jurisprudence...
Hire
Hire [locatio, conductio, Lat.], a bailment for a reward or compensation. It is divisible into four sorts:-(1) The hiring of a thing for use (locatio rei). (2) The hiring of work and labour (locatio operis faciendi). (3) The hiring of care and services to be performed or bestowed on the thing delivered (locatio custodi'). (4) The hiring of the carriage of goods (locatio operis mercium vehendarum) from one place to another. The three last are but sub-divisions of the general head of hire of labour and services.The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:-(I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an obligation to deliver the thing to the hirer; to refrain from every obstruction to the use of it by the hirer during the period of the bailment; to do no act that shall deprive the hirer of the thing; to warrant the title and right of possession to the hirer, in order to enable him to use the thing, or to perfor...
Criminal Charge
Criminal Charge, that in determining whether proceedings for condemnation constituted a 'criminal charge' for the purpose of Article 6 of the convention the court had to consider, Regina (Mudie) v. Dover Magistrates' Ct (CA), (2003) 2 WLR 1344.The court concludes as did the chamber that the nature of the charges together with the nature and severity of the penalties, were such that the charges against the applicants constituted criminal charges with in the meaning of Article 6 of the Convention which article applied to their adjudication hear-ings, R. (Napier) v. Home Secretary (QBD), (2004) 1 WLR 3056. [Human Rights Act, 1998, Art. 6]Possesses an autonomous meaning in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence. It is also true that the first of the three criteria, that is the domestic classification of the proceedings, is treated as no more than a starting point, Regina (Mudie) v. Dover Magistrates' Ct, (2003) LR 1238 QB (CA)....
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...
Forensic medicine
Forensic medicine, the science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. It comprehends, in a more extensive sense, medical police, or those medical precepts which may prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. This science is also termed medical jurisprudence, legal medicine, and state medicine. Consult the works of Taylor, Guy, Beck, or Tidy on the subject....
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