Morality - Law Dictionary Search Results
right
a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2
Demoralize
To corrupt or undermine in morals to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals in
Obscene
Code, s. 292) The concept of obscenity would differ from country to country depending on the standards of morals of contemporary society. But to insist that the standard should always be for the writer to see that
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Just
'Just' may apply in nearly all of its senses, either to ethics or law, denoting something which is morally right and fair and sometimes that which is right and fair accord-ing to positive law. It connotes reasonableness
Guilt
The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law or from morally wrong action the state of one who has broken a moral or political law crime criminality offense against
Stridhan
of extreme distress, as in famine, illness or the like, the husband can utilise it but he is morally bound to restore it or its value when he is able to do so. This right is purely
Professional misconduct
see also R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264. Means dishonesty or some conduct involving moral turpitude, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kashi Prasad, AIR 1969 All 363. The test to be applied in
Dharma
dharma is a word of wide meaning as to cover the rules concerning all matters such as spiritual, moral and personal as also civil, criminal and constitutional law, it gives the precise meaning depending upon the context
Irrationality
unreasonableness. It applies to a decision which is so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have
Equity
duties. (2) Taken in a less universal sense, Equity is used in contradistinction to strict law. This is Moral Equity, which should be the genius of every kind of human jurisprudence; since it expounds and limits the
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