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Home Dictionary Name: naturalNatural justice
Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules of natural justice which are not embodied rules. What particular rule of natural justice should apply to a given case must depend to a great extent on the facts and circumstances of that case, the frame-work of the law under which the enquiry is held and the constitution of the Tribunal pointed for the purpose, A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 150: (1969) 2 SCC 262.Historically, 'natural justice' has been used in a way 'which implies the existence of moral principles of self-evidence and unarguable truth'. In course of time, judges nurtured in the traditions of British jurisprudence, often involved it in conjunction with a reference to 'equity and good conscience'. Legal experts of earlier generations did not draw any distinctio...
Natural
Fixed or determined by nature pertaining to the constitution of a thing belonging to native character according to nature essential characteristic innate not artificial foreign assumed put on or acquired as the natural growth of animals or plants the natural motion of a gravitating body natural strength or disposition the natural heat of the body natural color...
Civil nature
Civil nature, The word 'civil' according to dictionary means 'relating to the citizen as an individual; civil rights'. In Black's Law Dictionary it is defined as 'relating to private rights and remedies sought by civil actions as contrasted with criminal proceedings'. In law it is understood as an antonym of criminal. Historically the two broad classifications were civil and criminal. Revenue, tax and company etc. were added to it later. But they too pertain to the larger family of 'civil'. There is thus no doubt about the width of the word 'civil'. Its width has been stretched further by using the word 'nature' along with it. That is even those suits are cognizable which are not only civil but are even of civil nature. In Article 133 of the Constitution an appeal lies to this Court against any judgment, decree or order in a 'civil proceeding'. The word 'nature' has been defined as 'the fundamental qualities of a person or thing; identity or essential character; sort; kind; character'....
natural
natural 1 : based on an inherent sense of right and wrong [ justice] see also natural law, natural right 2 a : existing as part of or determined by nature [the condition of the land] b : being in accordance with or arising from nature esp. as distinguished from operation of law see also natural person compare artificial c : arising from the usual course of events [a result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4 : illegitimate [a child] nat·u·ral·ly adv ...
special naturalization provisions
special naturalization provisions Provisions covering special classes of persons whom may be naturalized even though they do not meet all the general requirements for naturalization. Such special provisions allow: 1) wives or husbands of U.S. citizens to file for naturalization after three years of lawful permanent residence instead of the prescribed five years; 2) a surviving spouse of a U.S. citizen who served in the armed forces to file his or her naturalization application in any district instead of where he/she resides; and 3) children of U.S. citizen parents to be naturalized without meeting certain requirements or taking the oath, if too young to understand the meaning. Other classes of persons who may qualify for special consideration are former U.S. citizens, servicemen, seamen, and employees of organizations promoting U.S. interests abroad. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Liquefied natural gas terminal
Liquefied natural gas terminal, means the facilities and infrastructure required to--(i) receive liquefied natural gas,(ii) store liquefied natural gas,(iii) enable regasification of liquefied natural gas, and(iv) transport regasified liquefied natural gas till the outside boundaries of the facility. Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006, s. 2(t)]...
Good natured
Naturally mild in temper not easily provoked amiable cheerful not taking offense easily as too good natured to resent a little criticism the good natured policeman on our block the sounds of good natured play Opposite of ill natured...
Fer' natur', animals
Fer' natur', animals. Beasts and birds of a wild disposition, such as deer, hares, coneys in a warren, pheasants, partridges, etc., as distingui-shed from those domit' natur', or tame, such as horses, sheep, poultry, etc. They are not whilst living the subjects of absolute property, so that they cannot be the subject of larceny, nor are they liable to distress for rent. But a man may acquire a qualified property in them, either (1) Per industriam, by his reclaiming and making them tame by art and industry, or by so confining them that they cannot escape, e.g., deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, etc. The property in them only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on account of their inability, as when birds, coneys, etc., make their nests or burrows on a mans' land, then he has a qualified property ...
Natural child
Natural child, the child in fact, the child of one's body. Some children are both the natural and legitimate offspring of a marriage, i.e., those duly born in wedlock. Some are the legitimate but not the natural offspring of a marriage, i.e., those who are born in wedlock, and never bastardized, although begotten in adultery and in fact the natural children of a stranger. See Shakespeare's King John, Act i., sc. 1. [Indian Succession Act]Some are natural children only; i.e., bastards, born out of wedlock, and those born in wedlock, who are bastardized, and hence the word is popularly more often used as though it were simply equivalent to bastard. See LEGTIMATION; BASTARD and BASTARDIZE....
natural law
natural law : a body of law or a specific principle of law that is held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law NOTE: While natural law, based on a notion of timeless order, does not receive as much credence as it did formerly, it was an important influence on the enumeration of natural rights by Thomas Jefferson and others. ...
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