Low Minded - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: low mindedLow minded
Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things showing a base mind...
Low mindedness
The quality of being low minded meanness baseness...
Person of unsound mind
Person of unsound mind, a term by which in a more enlightened age persons afflicted with a mental illness affecting their reason are to be known, as distinguished from Idiots, Imbeciles, Feeble-minded Persons and Moral Defectives under the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927 (17 & 18Geo. 5, c. 33) (see those titles, and LUNATICS).The statute law affecting persons of unsound mind in contained in the (English) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts, 1890 to 1930, of which the principal are the (English) Lunacy Acts, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 5), 1891 (54 & 55 Vict., c. 56), and as regards Boards of Control, the Mental Deficiency Acts, 1913 to 1927 and the Mental Treatment Rules, 1930 (S.R. & O., 1930 No. 1083). A classification of patients has been made as follows: (a) Voluntary (see the (English) Act of 1930, s. 1; (b) Temporary (ibid., s. 5 (1); (c) Certified [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, s. 4]; (d) Found to be of unsound mind upon inquisition (see that title), and a further classification is into a pri...
Earthly minded
Having a mind devoted to earthly things worldly minded opposed to spiritual minded...
low cut
having a neckline low enough to expose part of the breast of a womans garment as a low cut party dress...
Low lived
Characteristic of or like one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life mean dishonorable contemptible as low lived dishonesty...
Low necked
Cut low in the neck decollete low cut said of a womans dress...
low toned
relatively low in volume soft of sound as making low toned noises with their mouths that went as an undercurrent of sound Opposite of loud...
Low visibility rules
Low visibility rules, these are rules of law which are made inaccessible to the public. Generally these are obscure laws, with far reaching powers and which infringe fundamental rights and those which the state does not wish to publicize. 'Fundamental rights cease to be viable if laws calculated to constrict their sweep are withheld from public access; and the freedoms under Art. 19(1) cannot be restricted by hidden or 'low visibility rules' beyond discovery by fair search. ' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1721), para 93] - here reference is made to the Punjab Jail Manual which was not made available to prisoners and was priced so high that few could buy. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
meeting of the minds
meeting of the minds :assent to the mutually agreed upon and understood terms of an agreement by the parties to a contract that may be manifest by objective signs of intent (as conduct) [the parties had not reached a meeting of the minds, and they did not have a specifically enforceable agreement "Franklin v. Stern, 858 P.2d 142 (1993) (dissent)"] ...
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