Life Sustaining - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: life sustaininglife sustaining
being the seat or source of life performing a necessary function in the living body as the need for life sustaining air and water...
living will
living will : a document in which the signer indicates preferences or directions for the administration and esp. the withdrawal or withholding of life-sustaining medical treatment in the event of terminal illness or permanent unconsciousness see also advance directive compare durable power of attorney at power of attorney ...
life insurance
life insurance : insurance providing for the payment of money to a designated beneficiary upon the death of the insured see also endowment insurance ordinary life insurance : whole life insurance in this entry straight life insurance : whole life insurance in this entry term life insurance : life insurance that provides coverage for a set term and does not accumulate cash surrender value universal life insurance : life insurance characterized by flexible premiums, benefits, and payment schedules, by the indexing of cash value to money market interest rates, and by the periodic reporting of current value and company costs charged to the account universal variable life insurance : variable universal life insurance in this entry variable life insurance : life insurance in which all or part of the cash value of the policy is located in a tax-deferred investment portfolio with risk assumed by the insured for investment losses compare variable annuity at annuity variable univer...
Life
Life, rights to life guaranteed by Article 21 Constitution of India includes livelihood, K. Chandru v. State of Tamil Nadu, (1985) 3 SCC 536: AIR 1986 SC 204.The word 'life' in Article 21 does not include livelihood. In Re Sant Ram AIR 1960 SC 932: (1960) 3 SCR 499; A.V. Nachane v. Union of India, AIR 1982 SC 1126: (1982) 1 SCC 205.The word 'life' in Art. 21, means not merely the right to the continuance of a person's animal of existence, but a right to the possession of each his organs - his arms and legs etc., Kharak Singh v. State of U.P., AIR 1963 SC 1295: (1964) 1 SCR 332. [Constitution of India, Art. 21]The expression 'life' has a much wider meaning. Where therefore the outcome of a departmental enquiry is likely to adversely affect reputation or livelihood of a person, some of the finer graces of human civilization which make life worth living would be jeopardised and the same can be put in jeopardy only by law which inheres fair procedures. In this context one can recall the fa...
sustain
sustain 1 : to support as true, legal, or just 2 : to allow or uphold as valid [ an objection] compare overrule sus·tain·able adj ...
Sustainable use
Sustainable use, means the use of components of biological diversity in such manner and at such rate that does not lead to the long-term decline of the biological diversity thereby maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations. [Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (18 of 2003), s. 2(o)]...
Right to life
Right to life, the 'right to life' includes the right to livelihood. The sweep of the right of life conferred by Article 21 is wide and far reaching. It does not mean merely that life cannot be extinguished or taken away as, for example, by the imposition and execution of the death sentence, except according to procedure established by law. That is but one aspect of the right of life. An equally important facet of that right is the right to livelihood because, no person can live without the means of living, that is, the means of livelihood. If the right to livelihood is not treated as a part of the constitutional right to life, the easiest way of depriving a person of his right to life would be to deprive him of his means of livelihood to the point of abrogation. Such deprivation would not only denude the life of its effective content and meaningfulness but it would make life impossible to live. And yet, such deprivation would not have to be in accordance with the procedure established...
wrongful life
wrongful life : a malpractice claim brought by or on behalf of a child born with a birth defect alleging that he or she would never have been born if not for the negligent advice or treatment provided to the parents by a physician or health-care provider ;also : the life or injury at issue in such a claim [recovery for wrongful life] NOTE: Wrongful life claims have usually been rejected by the courts. The injury is not the birth defect, but the life itself, and courts are reluctant to declare life an injury. A specific calculation of damages for wrongful life would entail affixing a monetary value to the difference between life in an impaired state and nonexistence. There is no legally established right not to be born. ...
Imprisonment for life
Imprisonment for life, S. 428, Cr PC, 1973, does not apply to those convicted for 'imprisonment for life'. It is applicable only in case of accused persons who have, on conviction, been sentenced to imprison-ment for a term and the Penal Code as well as the Criminal Procedure Code make and maintain a clear distinction between 'imprisonment for a term' and 'imprisonment for life' in that the former means imprisonment for a definite or fixed period while the latter means imprisonment for the remainder of the natural life of the convict. The periods of life term mentioned in s. 57, IPC or the remission rules contained in Jail Manual (e.g. Para 516B of Punjab/Haryana Jail Manual) are irrele-vant in this context, Kartar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1982 SC 1439: (1982) 3 SCC 1: (1983) 1 SCR 445.The expression 'imprisonment for life' must be read in the context of s. 45, IPC. So read in it would ordinarily mean imprisonment for the full or complete span of life, Ashok Kumar v. Union of Ind...
Life insurance fund
Life insurance fund, The life insurance fund as defined in s. 10(2) is an absolute security of the life policy-holders and cannot be used in any manner. The words 'life insurance fund' have a definite meaning under the Insurance Act under s. 10(2), read with s. 11 and form D of the Insurance Act, Life Insurance Corporation of India v. Crown Life Insurance Co., AIR 1965 SC 1985 (1987): (1965) 3 SCR 474. [Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956]...
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