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obligation

to pay a particular amount of money [does not create a debt, liability, or other , legal or moral "State v. Florida Dev. Fin. Corp., 650 So. 2d 14 (1995)"] ;also : an amount owed in such

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

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

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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

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

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

Education

the word comprehends not merely the instruction received at school, or college but the whole course of training moral, intellectual and physical; is not limited to the ordinary instruction of the child in the pursuits of literature.

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

Pravity

Deterioration degeneracy corruption especially moral crookedness moral perversion perverseness depravity as the pravity of human nature

Church Discipline Act (English)

v. Noble, (1870) LR 3 PC 357; Bishop of St. Albans v. Fillingham, 1906 p. 163), ritual or moral misconduct), first by inquiry before commissioners nominated by the bishop, and then if the commissioners report that there

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