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never ending

endless or seemingly endless as the never ending search for happiness...


Never Indebted, plea of

Never Indebted, plea of, a species of traverse which occurred in actions of debt on simple contract, and was resorted to when the defendant meant to deny in point of fact the existence of any express contract to the effect alleged in the declaration, or to deny the matters of facts from which such contract would bylaw be implied, Steph. Plead., 7th ed. 153, 156. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 17, a defendant may not deny geneally the facts alleged by the plaintiff. See, further, PLEADING....


contra bonos mores

contra bonos mores [Late Latin] : harmful to the moral welfare of society [an act contra bonos mores] ...


Upto not more than

Upto not more than, the words 'upto, not more than' merely fix the maximum percentage or rank-promotees in the category, leaving it to the appointing authorities to adopt any percentage below this figure, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Venkattappayya, (1961) 3 SCR 45: AIR 1961 SC 779 (782). [Madras Police Subordinate Service Rules, Rr. 3, 4, 5]...


Where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade

Where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade, the rule of seniority set out in Paragraph 5(ii) of the Memorandum dated December 22, 1959 would be attracted in all cases where promotions to a grade are made from more than one grade, irrespective as to whether these grades all belong to the same service or not. It would not be right to limit the applicability of the seniority rule set out in this provision by reading into it a limitation which is not there, merely because an illustration of the applicability of the seniority rule given in the Explanatory Note relates to a case where the grades are all in the same service, P.S. Mahal v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 1291: (1984) 4 SCC 545 (577): (1984) 3 SCR 847....


motion for more definite statement

motion for more definite statement see motion ...


Contra bonos mores

Contra bonos mores, against good morals....


More mussa

More mussa, a watery or boggy moor; a morass, Dugd. Mon., tom. i.p. 306....


More or less

More or less (sive plus siveminus). These words in a contract, which rests in fieri, will only excuse a very small deficiency in the quantity of an estate; for if there be a considerable deficiency, the purchaser will be entitled to an abatement; see Crossv. Eglin, (1831) 2 B. & Ad. 106. The words are inconstant use in describing the parcels in a conveyance, but the cases do not seem to define their precise effect....


Pacta qu' contra leges constitutionesque vel contra bonos mores flunt nullam vim habere, indubitati juris est

Pacta qu' contra leges constitutionesque vel contra bonos mores flunt nullam vim habere, indubitati juris est.-(It is undoubted law that agreements have no force which are contrary to law or the constitutions, or to good morals.)...


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