Militate

militate against

To argue against to cast doubt on used in reference to facts which tend to disprove a hypothesis as the absence of a correlation of budget deficits with inflation militates against any causal relation between the two Opposite of support...

Malcolm Little

A militant American black nationalist leader also called Malcolm X 1925 1965...

Militant

Engaged in warfare fighting combating serving as a soldier...

To make war to fight to contend usually followed by against and with...

Gynaec Egalite

Gynaec Egalite, equality for women. 'Allergy for gynaec egalite is die hard and the millennium ahead may degenerate to 'hellenium' unless all humanity in militant unity battles for fairness to feminist rights.' Crime Against Women and Children in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 196. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

Knights bannerets

Knights bannerets [milites vexillarii, Lat.], those created by the sovereign in person on the field of battle, formerly entitled to a banner in battle. They have been said to rank, generally, after Knights of the Garter. 1 Bl. Com. 403....

Knights of the bath

Knights of the bath [milites balnei, Lat.], an order instituted by Henry IV. and revived by George I. They are so called from the ceremony formerly observed of bathing the night before their creation, Dugd. Antiq. Of Warw. 531....

Knights of the Chamber

Knights of the Chamber [milites camer', Lat.], those created in the sovereign's chamber in time of peace, not in the field, 2 Inst. 666....

Mistake

Mistake, misconception, error.Money paid under a mistake of a material fact, as where a person discounts a forged bill, is recoverable (though a banker paying the forged cheque of a customer cannot charge the customer with the loss), and see Jones & Co. v. aring & Gillow Ltd., 1926 AC 670; but money paid under a mistake of law is ordinarily not recoverable, Holt v. Markham, (1923) 1 KB 504, though there is an exception in the case where an officer of a Court or a trustee in bankruptcy has received the money [Ex P. Simmonds, (1885) 16 QBD 308]. A contract is not voidable because it was caused by a mistake as to any law in force in India; but a mistake as to a law in force in India has the same effect as a mistake of fact. (The Indian Contract Act, 1872, s. 21)It is a common condition of the sale of land that any error or misdescription shall not vitiate the sale, and mayor may not be made the subject of compensation, and this condition applies whether an error complained of was discover...

Term, imprisonment for life and imprisonment for a term

Term, imprisonment for life and imprisonment for a term, the word 'term' does not necessarily imply a concept of ascertainability or conveys a sense of certainty. s. 53, 53-A(4) and (b), 57 or 65 IPC do not militate against this conclusion, nor the words 'for a term which may extend to one half of the imprisonment for life' in s. 511, IPC support this conclusion. The expressions 'imprisonment for life' and 'imprisonment for a term' are not used either in the Penal Code or in the Criminal Procedure Code in contradistinction with each other, Bhagirath v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1985 SC 1050 (1052): (1985) 2 SCC 580: (1985) 3 SCR 743....

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