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Liable

being bound to respond because a wrong has occurred. Condition out of which a legal liability might arise...... Justly or legally responsible or answerable, Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edn.; see also Zunjarrao Bhikaji Nagarkar v. Union of

Negligence

the protection of the interests of another person, the degree of care, precaution and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby such other person suffers injury, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Laxman Iyer, AIR 2003 SC

Merito beneficium legis amittit, qui legem ipsam subvertere intendit

Merito beneficium legis amittit, qui legem ipsam subvertere intendit [Lat.], he justly loses the benefit of law who purposes to overturn the law itself

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Misuse of power or misapplication of power

in Government authorities, is controlled by the need to confine it to the ambit within which it could justly and reasonably be expected to take place. A power used under the mis-apprehension that it was needed for

Oppression

Taking the dictionary meaning of the word 'oppression', Viscount Simonds said at page 342 that the appellant-society could justly be described as having behaved towards the minority share-holders in an 'oppressive' manner, that is to say, in

Charities, or Public Trusts

Mortmain Act by which it was restrained. But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined

Contingent remainder

Contingent remainder, a remainder limited so as to depend on an event or condition which may never happen or be performed, or which may not happen or be performed till after the determination of the preceding...

deservedly

According to desert whether good or evil justly

Pertinence

The quality or state of being pertinent justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand fitness appositeness relevancy suitableness

Payable

That may can or should be paid suitable to be paid justly due

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