Nominal

Nominal damage

Nominal damage, 'nominal damage' is a technical phrase which means that the Court has negatived anything like real damage, but is affirming that there is an infraction of a legal right, Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd. v. Vendra Venkanna Proprietor of Jai Bharathi Cement Works, AIR 1963 AP 58.Nominal damages. See DAMGES....

Direct nomination

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention and loosely to the nomination effected as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote...

Nomination

Nomination, is equivalent to the word 'appointments'. When used by a mayor in an instrument executed for the purpose of appointing certain persons to office, (P. Ramanatha Aiyar's Law Lexicon, 2nd Edn., pp. 1310-11) see also Konkan Railway Corpn. Ltd. v. Rani Construction Pvt. Ltd., (2000) 8 SCC 151.Nomination, means (1) the action process or instance of nominating, (2) the act, process or an instrument of nominating; and act or right of designating for an officer or duty....

Nominated authority

Nominated authority, means an officer not below the rank of Station Officer nominated by the Chief Fire Officer, and includes an officer nominated by a local authority or a railway administration as a nominated authority for the purposes of this Act. [Delhi Fire Prevention and Fire Safety Act, 1986 (56 of 1986), s. 2(i)] [s. 2(i), Additional Emoluments (Compulsory Deposit) Act]...

nominate

nominate [Latin nominatus, past participle of nominare to call by name, from nomin- nomen name] in the civil law of Louisiana : having a special or certain name compare innominate [nÄ -mə-nāt] vt -nat·ed -nat·ing 1 : to appoint or propose for appointment to an office, position, or place [if the testator has nominated an executor of the will] [the President…shall and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors "U.S. Constitution art. II"] 2 : to propose as a candidate for election to office nom·i·na·tion [nÄ -mə-nā-shən] n ...

Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, pr'nomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum

Si quidem in nomine, cognomine, pr'nomine legatarii testator erraverit, cum de persona constat, nihilominus valet legatum. Justinian's Institutes, 1. 2, t. 20, s. 29.-(Although a testator may have mistaken the nomen, cognomen, or pr'nomen of a legatee, yet if it be certain who is the person meant, the legacy is valid.)...

Nominal partner

Nominal partner, one who has not any actual interest in the trade or business, or its profits; but by allowing his name to be used holds himself out to the world as apparently having an interest. See PARTNERSHIP; HOLDING OUT....

Nominal wages

Nominal wages, in relation to any labour, means a wages which is less than,--(a) the minimum wages fixed by the Government, in relation to the same or similar labour, under any law for the time being in force; and(b) where no such minimum wage has been fixed in relation to any form of labour, the wages that are normally paid, for the same or similar labour, to the labourers working in the same locality. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976) s. 2 (i)]...

nominal 1 : existing or being something in name or form but usually not in reality [defenses…raised by the corporation as defendant in a derivative suit "R. C. Clark"] 2 : being so small or trivial as to be a mere token [charging a fee] 3 of a rate of interest a : equal to the annual rate of simple interest that would obtain if interest were not compounded when in fact it is compounded and paid for periods of less than a year b : equal to the percentage by which a repaid loan exceeds the principal borrowed with no adjustment made for inflation compare effective nom·i·nal·ly adv ...

Nominal

Of or pertaining to a name or names having to do with the literal meaning of a word verbal as a nominal definition...

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