Neer Do Well - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: neer do wellNeer do well
A person who never does or fares well a good for nothing...
Well
Well, means a well sunk for the search of extraction of ground water by any user, and includes as open well, dug well, bore well, dug-cum-bore well, tube well, filter point, collector well or infiltration gallery, but does not include a well sunk by the Central Government for carrying out any scientific investigation or exploration work for the survey the assessment of ground water resources. [West Bengal Ground Water Resources (Management Control and Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...
Public well
Public well, means a well though situated in a private ground but used gratuitously, and was of right, by the inhabitants in the vicinity for drawing water is a public well, Smith v. Archibald, 5 AC 489....
do
do did done do·ing does vt 1 : perform execute 2 : commit [did this act of cruelty] verbal auxiliary used with the infinitive without to to form present and past tenses in legal and parliamentary language [ hereby bequeath] do business : to be engaged in business activities (as soliciting sales) ;specif : to engage in activities sufficient to subject a foreign company to the personal jurisdiction of a state [was sufficient to constitute doing business in the state "International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310 (1945)"] see also doing business statute ...
Dos agrave dos
Back to back as to sit dos agrave dos in a dogcart to dance dos agrave dos or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back...
well-pleaded complaint rule
well-pleaded complaint rule : a rule of procedure that federal question jurisdiction cannot be acquired over a case unless an issue of federal law appears on the face of a properly pleaded complaint NOTE: The well-pleaded complaint rule is not satisfied by a defense based on federal law, including a defense of federal preemption, or by anticipation of such a defense in the complaint. ...
doing business statute
doing business statute : a state long-arm statute that creates personal jurisdiction over companies establishing minimum contacts by doing business in that state ...
can do
having an eager willingness to accept and overcome challenges as a can do kind of person the citys indomitable optimism and can do spirit...
do nothing
Doing nothing disinclined to work or exertion inactive idle lazy of people as a do nothing policy...
Illegal, legally bound to do
Illegal, legally bound to do, the word 'illegal' is applicable to everything which is an offence or which is prohibited by law, or which furnishes ground for a civil action: and a person is said to be 'Legally bound to do' whatever it is illegal in him to omit. [Indian Penal Code, s. 43]...
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