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Accident

(1) lost or destroyed documents. (2) Imperfect execution of powers. (3) Erroneous payments, e.g., by personal representatives. In logic, something, in any subject, person, or thing not belonging to the essence. See ESSENCE. The popular and ordinary

Broken rice

that the part cannot possibly be equated with the whole. The natural, and, indeed, the only reasonably open logic would be: if the whole includes a part, nothing which is merely a part of the whole could

logistician

a person skilled at symbolic logic

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Alibi

leave of absence from duty on the date of offence does not, by any stretch of reasoning or logic, amount to pleading alibi, Subhash Chand v. State of Rajasthan, (2002) 1 SCC 702 (712). It is a

Overlogical

Excessively logical adhering too closely to the forms or rules of logic

Metalogical

Beyond the scope or province of logic

Benefit of doubt

not the doubt of a timid mind which fights shy-though unwittingly it may be-or is afraid of the logical consequences, if that benefit was not given, State of U.P. v. Iftikhar Khan, AIR 1973 SC 863: (1973)

Computer

s. 2 (ffb)] Means any electronic, magnetic, optical or other high-speed data processing device or system which performs logical, arithmetic and memory functions by manipulations of electronic, magnetic or optical impulses, and includes all input, output, process-ing,

Legal justice and natural justice

is called in aid of legal justice. Natural justice relieves legal justice from unnecessary technicality, grammatical pedantry or logical prevarication. It supplies the omissions of a formulated law, Canara Bank v. Debasis Das, AIR 2003 SC 2041

Damage

the law, and thus affording a practical justification for admitting into the civil law a principle which ought logically to belong to the criminal, Rookes v. Barnard, (1964) AC 1129. Is to be contrasted with the element

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