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Moral Imbeciles, 'persons who from an early age display some permanent mental defect coupled with strong vicious or criminal propensities on which punishment has had little or no deterrent effect'; see (English) Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 28), s. 1 (d). They constitute one of the four classes of 'defectives' dealt with by the Act....
Moral turpitude
Moral turpitude, 'Moral turpitude' is an expression which is used in legal as also societal parlance to describe conduct which is inherently base, vile, depraved or having any connection showing depravity, Pawan Kumar v. State of Haryana, AIR 1996 SC 3300: (1996) 4 SCC 17 (21). See also AIR 1959 All 71.One of the most serious offences involving 'moral turpitude' would be where a person employed in a banking company dealing with money of the general public, commits forgery and wrongfully withdraws money which he is not entitled to withdraw, Allahabad Bank v. Deepak Kumar Bhola, (1997) 4 SCC 1 (4).Moral turpitude, whether an offence involves moral delinquency is question of fact depending on the public morals of the time; common sense of community and context and purpose for which the character of offence is to be determined. In common parlance 'moral turpitude' means baseness of character. Concise Oxford Dictionary defines 'moral' - 'Concerned with goodness or badness of character or di...
imbecile
imbecile : a mentally retarded or deficient person ;esp : a severely mentally retarded person used esp. formerly ; see also idiot ...
Imbecile
Destitute of strength whether of body or mind feeble impotent esp mentally wea feeble minded as hospitals for the imbecile and insane...
Imbecility
The quality of being imbecile weakness feebleness esp of mind...
Imbecile
Imbecile, means a person afflicted with severe mental retardation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 751....
Imbeciles
Imbeciles, 'persons in whose case there exists mental defectiveness not amounting to idiocy, yet so pronounced that they are incapable of managing themselves or their affairs, or, in the case of children, of being taught to do so' [(Englihs) Mental Deficiency Act, 1927, s. 1(1)(b)]. See IDIOT....
Imbecility
Imbecility. Weakness of tenure, e.g., leasehold contrasted with freehold (Brediman's Case, 6 rep. 56 b)....
moral turpitude
moral turpitude 1 : an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community 2 : a quality of dishonesty or other immorality that is determined by a court to be present in the commission of a criminal offense [a crime involving moral turpitude] compare malum in se NOTE: Whether a criminal offense involves moral turpitude is an important determination in deportation, disbarment, and other disciplinary hearings. Past crimes involving moral turpitude usually may also be introduced as evidence to impeach testimony. Theft, perjury, vice crimes, bigamy, and rape have generally been found to involve moral turpitude, while liquor law violations and disorderly conduct generally have not. ...
Moralize
To apply to a moral purpose to explain in a moral sense to draw a moral from...
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