Obedience - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: obedienceObediently
In an obedient manner with obedience...
Obedience
The act of obeying or the state of being obedient compliance with that which is required by authority subjection to rightful restraint or control...
Canonical obedience
Canonical obedience, that duty which a clergyman owes to the bishop who ordained him, to the bishop in whose diocese he is beneficed, and also to the metropolitan of such bishop....
Dutiful
Performing or ready to perform the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission obedience or deference submissive to natural or legal superiors obedient as to parents or superiors as a dutiful son or daughter a dutiful ward or servant a dutiful subject...
Enforce
Enforce, has been attributed a meaning to give force or effect to; to compel obedience to (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573.In general, to cause to be executed or performed, to cause to take effect, or to compel obedience to, as to enforce laws or rules; to control; to execute with vigor; to put in execution; to put in force: also to exact, or to obtain authoritatively. The word is used in a multiplicity of ways and is given many shades of meaning and applicability, but it does not necessarily imply actual force or coercion. As applied to process, the term implies execution and embraces all the legal means of collecting a judgment, including proceedings supplemental to execution (corpus juris secundum) Hameed Joharan v. Abdul Salam, (2001) 7 SCC 573....
Subject to
Subject to, is an expression whereby limitation is expressed. The order is conclusive for all purposes, Ashok Leyland Ltd. v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2004) 3 SCC 1: (2004) 1 SCALE 224.Means 'under the condition that: we accept, subject to her agreement, Collin's English Dictionary, See also M.V. Shankar Bhat v. Claude Pinto, AIR 2004 SC 636.Means in case of a contract if it is intended that it would be operative subject to the execution of a former contract, there would be no concluded contract until such a condition was completed, Winn v. Bull, (1877) 7 Ch D 29.Means liable, subordinate, subservient, inferior, obedient to: governed or affected by: provided: answerable for, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1278.Means payment of debts etc., does not make the legatee personally liable, Re Cowley, 531 LT 494.Means subservient, inferior, obedient to; governed or affected by; provided that; answerable for, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 1278.Means this expression introduces a condit...
abide
abide abode or: abid·ed abid·ing : to accept without objection abide by : to act or behave in accordance with or in obedience to ...
law-abiding
law-abiding : abiding by or obedient to the law law-abid·ing·ness n ...
ministerial
ministerial 1 : being or having the characteristics of an act or duty prescribed by law as part of the duties of an administrative office 2 : relating to or being an act done after ascertaining the existence of a specified state of facts in obedience to legal and esp. statutory mandate without exercise of personal judgment or discretion see also mandamus compare discretionary ...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
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