Mismanagement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mismanagementMismanage
To manage ill or improperly as to mismanage public affairs...
devastavit
devastavit [Medieval Latin, he/she has spoiled (someone's property)] 1 : mismanagement or waste of the assets in the estate of a deceased person by the fiduciary in charge of the estate (as the executor) 2 : a common-law writ seeking a remedy for devastavit ...
Misconduct
Wrong conduct bad behavior mismanagement...
Mismanagement
Wrong or bad management as he failed through mismagement...
Mismanager
One who manages ill...
Fault
Fault, means wrongful act or default. [Sale of Goods Act, 1930 (39 of 1930), s. 2 (5)]An error or defect of judgment or of conduct any deviation from prudence or duly resulting from inattention, incapacity, perversity, bad faith, or mismanagement, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 623....
Misconduct
Misconduct, is a relative term. It has to be considered with reference to the subject-matter and the context wherein such term occurs. It literally means wrong conduct or improper conduct, R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264.Misconduct, means 'A transgression of some established and definite rule of action, a forbidden act, a dereliction from duty, unlawful behaviour, wilful in character, improper or wrong behaviour; its synonyms are misdemeanour, misdeed, misbehaviour, delinquency, impropriety, mismanagement, offence, but not negligence or carelessness, (Black's Law Dictionary), N.G. Dastane v. Shrikant S. Shivde, (2001) 6 SCC 135.The word 'misconduct' is not capable of precise definition, but at the same time though incapable of precise definition, the word 'misconduct' on reflection receives its connotation from the context, the delinquency in performance and its effect on the discipline and the nature of duty. The act complained of must bear a forbidden quality or...
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