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Home Dictionary Name: meaninglessmeaningless
having no meaning of no value as a meaningless endeavor a meaningless life a meaningless explanation Opposite of meaningful...
VerbarFadaise
A vapid or meaningless remark a commonplace nonsense...
Insignificant
Not significant void of signification sense or import meaningless as insignificant words...
meaningful
Having a meaning or purpose having significance as a meaningful explanation a meaningful discussion a meaningful pause to live a meaningful life Opposite of meaningless...
Interpretation of Statute
Interpretation of Statute, it is well-settled that in construing the provisions of statute the Courts should be slow to adopt a construction which tends to make any part of the statute meaningless or ineffective. Thus, an attempt must always be made to reconcile the relevant provisions so as to advance the remedy intended by the Statute, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCR 148.Interpretation of Statutes, as a general principle of interpretation, where the words of a statute are plain, precise and unambiguous, the intention of the legislature is to be gathered from the language of the statute itself and no external evidence such as parliamentary debates, reports of the commit-tees of the legislature or even the statement made by the Minister on the introduction of a measure or by the framers of the Act is admissible to construe those words. It is only where a statute is not exhaustive or where its language is ambiguous, uncertain, clouded or susceptible ...
Mala fide
Mala fide, in bad faith.Mala fide, is not meaningless jargon. It has proper connotation. Mala fides depends upon its own facts and circumstances, Prabodh Sagar v. Punjab State Electricity Board, (2005) 5 SCC 630.Means an action taken in undue haste may amount to be mala fide, Inderpreet Singh Kahlon v. State of Punjab, AIR 2006 (SC) 2571: (2006) 5 JT 352: (2006) 5 SCALE 273: 2006 (4) Supreme 8: (2006) 6 SCJ 107: (2006) 5 SCJD 59: (2006) 7 SRJ 432.The expression 'malafide' has a definite significance in the legal phraseology and the same cannot possibly emanate out of fanciful imagination or even apprehensions but there must be existing definite evidence of bias and actions which cannot be attributed to be otherwise bona fide - actions not otherwise bona fide, however, by themselves would not amount to be mala fide unless the same is in accompaniment with some other factors which would depict a bad motive or intent on the part of the doer of the act, State of Punjab v. V.K. Khanna, AIR ...
Malice
Malice [fr. malitia, Lat.], a formed design of doing mischief to another, technically called malitia pr'cogitata, or malice prepense or aforethought. It is either express, as when one with a sedate and deliberate mind and formed design kills another, which formed design is evidenced by certain circumstances discovering such intentions, as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm; or implied, as where one wilfully poisons another; in such a deliberate act the law presumes malice, though no particular enmity can be proved. The nature of implied malice is also illustrated by the maxim, 'Culpa lata dolo 'quiparatur'-when negligence reaches a certain point it is the same as intentional wrong-'Every one must be taken to intend that which his the natural consequence of his actions'-if any one acts in exactly the same way as he would do it he bore express malice to another, he cannot be allowed to say he does not, 4 Steph. Com.'Malice ...
Sole, Corporation
Sole, Corporation, one person and his successors, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had; as the sovereign, a bishop, parson, etc., Steph. Com., 7th Edn., i. 358; iii. 4.The word 'successors' was essential in order to pass the fee simple in a grant to a corporation sole; without it, a life estate only passes: Co. Litt. 94 b. Words of limitation are not now necessary to convey land to a corporation sole [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 60], and by s. 180 (ibid.) any property which vested at any time in a corporation sole, including the Crown, passes and always has passed to his successors unless disposed of by him, and on his death it does not pas to his personal representatives but to his successor [Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 3 (5)]. In the event of a vacancy in office, see s. 180, L.P. Act, 1925. As to the property on a dissolut...
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