Neglect - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Neglect, means gross, wilful, intentional, culpable or flagrant disregard of duties, Baburao Vishwanath Mathpati v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1996 Bom 227.Neglect, when a money order or a demand draft is sent to the landlord, during the specified period, it cannot be said that the tenant has 'neglected to make payment'. The expression 'neglect' means 'to fail to give due care, attention, or time to. The fail through thoughtlessness or carelessness. To ignore or disregard', Laxmikant Devchand Bhojwani v. Pratap Singh Mohan Singh Pardeshi, (1994) 6 SCC 576 (579). [Bombay Rents, Hotels and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947, s. 12(3) (a)]. [s. 27, ill. (a), T.P. Act]...
excusable neglect
excusable neglect : the failure of a party to follow a required procedure in a timely fashion that results from a circumstance (as an accident) which is considered by the court to be sufficient reason to excuse that party compare unavoidable casualty NOTE: Excusable neglect allows a party to seek relief from a default judgment, to file late, or to be granted a deadline extension. ...
neglect
neglect : a disregard of duty resulting from carelessness, indifference, or willfulness ;esp : a failure to provide a child under one's care with proper food, clothing, shelter, supervision, medical care, or emotional stability compare abuse, negligence neglect vt ne·glect·ful adj ...
Neglect
Not to attend to with due care or attention to forbear ones duty in regard to to allow to pass unimproved unheeded undone etc to omit to disregard to slight as to neglect duty or business to neglect to pay debts...
Neglecter
One who neglects...
Neglectful
Full of neglect heedless careless negligent inattentive indifferent...
Neglective
Neglectful...
Self neglecting
A neglecting of ones self or of ones own interests...
Default
Default, omission of that which a man ought to do; neglect.When a defendant neglects to take certain steps in an action, which are required by the rules of Court, the Court may thereupon give judgment against him by default. The defendant allows judgment by default either intentionally or through mistake or neglect; intentionally, where he has no merits, or where he does so according to a previous agreement with the plaintiff; through mistake, when he delivers a pleading so defective that it is treated as a nullity; and through neglect, when perhaps he has no merits, but omits to appear, plead, etc., within the time limited by the rules of the Court for that purpose. This is an implied confession of the action. See the titles JUDGMENT, APPEARANCE, and PLEADING.It is defined as the non-performance of a duty, a failure to perform a legal duty or an omission to do something required, S. Sundaram Pillai v. V.R. Pattabiraman, (1985) 1 SCC 591: AIR 1985 SC 582: (1985) 2 SCR 643.It means non-...
Cessavit
Cessavit, a writ which lay (by the Statute of Gloucester, 6 Edw. 1, c. 4, and Westminster 2, 13 Edw. 1, c. 21), when a man who held lands by rent or other services neglected or ceased to perform his services for two years together, or where a religious house had lands given to it, on condition of performing some certain spiritual services, as reading prayers, giving alms, etc., and neglected it; in either of which cases, if the cesser or neglect had continued for two years, the lord or donor, and his heirs, had a writ of cessavit to recover the land itself, Fitz., N. B. 208. This writ was abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27....
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