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inadmissible : not admissible [ evidence] [ testimony] in·ad·mis·si·bil·i·ty [-mi-sə-bi-lə-tē] n in·ad·mis·si·bly adv ...
admissible
admissible : capable of being allowed or permitted [the difficulty would be lessened if entries in books of account were as prima facie evidence "B. N. Cardozo"] ad·mis·si·bil·i·ty [-mi-sə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
misapply
misapply -plied -ply·ing : to misuse or spend (as public money) without proper authority ;specif : to willfully and unlawfully convert (bank funds) for the use, benefit, or gain of oneself or a third party esp. through one's position as a bank employee or officer mis·ap·pli·ca·tion [mi-sa-plə-kā-shən] n ...
misrepresent
misrepresent : to make a misrepresentation about vi : to make a misrepresentation mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tive [-re-pri-zen-tə-tiv] adj mis·rep·re·sen·ter n ...
mitigate
mitigate -gat·ed -gat·ing vt : to lessen or minimize the severity of [what actions the State took to the hazardous conditions "Estate of Arrowwood v. State, 894 P.2d 642 (1995)"] [factors that the crime] see also mitigation of damages compare aggravate vi : to lessen or minimize the severity of one's losses or damage [a failure to ] mit·i·ga·tion [mi-tə-gā-shən] n mit·i·ga·tive [mi-tə-gā-tiv] adj ...
permissive
permissive 1 : based on or having permission [ occupancy] [a user of the vehicle] 2 : granting permission or discretion (as to the court) [a statute] 3 : not compulsory: as a : allowed or made under a standard, rule, or provision that permits discretion or an option see also permissive intervention at intervention permissive presumption at presumption compare compulsory b : allowed under modern rules of civil procedure although not arising from the same transaction or occurrence as the one at issue in the original claim [a counterclaim] see also permissive joinder at joinder per·mis·sive·ly adv per·mis·sive·ness n ...
prime minister
prime minister 1 : the chief minister of a ruler or state 2 : the official head of a cabinet or ministry ;esp : the chief executive of a parliamentary government prime min·is·te·ri·al [-mi-nə-stir-ē-əl] adj prime min·is·ter·ship n prime min·is·try [-mi-nə-strē] n ...
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence : a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence : a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence : a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted NOTE: General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate s...
trespass
trespass [Anglo-French trespas violation of the law, actionable wrong, from Old French, crossing, passage, from trespasser to go across, from tres across + passer to pass] : wrongful conduct causing harm to another: as a : a willful act or active negligence as distinguished from a mere omission of a duty that causes an injury to or invasion of the person, rights, or esp. property of another ;also : the common-law form of action for redress of injuries directly caused by such a wrongful act compare trespass on the case in this entry b : trespass quare clausum fregit in this entry con·tinu·ing trespass : a trespass that continues until the act (as of depriving another of his or her property without the intent to steal it) or instrumentality (as an object placed wrongfully on another's land) causing it is ended or removed criminal trespass : trespass to property that is forbidden by statute and punishable as a crime as distinguished from trespass that creates a cause o...
Misuse of power or misapplication of power
Misuse of power or misapplication of power, 'Misuse of power' or 'mis- application of power' or a 'detournement de puvoir' (as it is called in French Administrative Law), are terms correctly employed to describe the use of a power in this illegal fashion. The exercise of every power, whatever its nature, lodged in Government authorities, is controlled by the need to confine it to the ambit within which it could justly and reasonably be expected to take place. A power used under the mis-apprehension that it was needed for effectuating a purpose, which was really outside the law or the proper scope of the power, could be said to be an exercise for an extraneous or collateral purpose, State of Mysore v. P.R. Kulkarni, AIR 1972 SC 2170: (1973) 3 SCC 597.Misuser, abuse of any liberty or benefit which works a forfeiture of it....
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