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Wilful

Wilful, deliberate conduct of a person who is a free agent, knows that he is doing and intends to do what he is doing, Dictionary of Law by L.B. Curzon, p. 361. See also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means 'governed by Will without yielding to reason or without regard to reason; obstinately or perversely self-willed, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, p. 2617; see also Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means intentional; not incidental or involuntary.Wilful means done intentionally, knowingly, and purposely, without justifiable excuse as distingui-shed from an act done carelessly; thoughtlessly, heedlessly or inadvertently;In common parlance word wilful is used in sense of intentional, as distinguished from accidental or involuntary, Word and Phrases, Chordia Automobiles v. S. Moosa, (2000) 3 SCC 282.Means an act or omission which is done voluntarily and intentionally and with the specific intent to do something the law forbids or with the...


Heresy

Heresy [fr. Gk.], according to Blackstone, consists not in a total denial of Christianity, but in a public and obstinate denial of any of its principal doctrines publicly and obstinately avowed. The 1 Eliz. c. 1 repealed all former statutes relating to heresy, leaving the jurisdiction in cases of heresy as it stood at Common Law; that is, it left the simple offence to be visited by spiritual punishment in the Ecclesiastical Courts, which courts have long since ceased to exercise jurisdiction over laymen. Heresy in the clergy is punishable under the Church Discipline Act as an offence against the laws ecclesiastical, see Noble v. Voysey, (1871) LR 3 PC 357, in which the Rev. Charles Voysey was deprived of his benefice for contradicting many doctrines set forth in the Thirty-nine Articles (see that title). See also APOSTASY; H'RETICO COMBURENDO, DE. Consult Odgers on Libel, 5th Edn. P. 486.Opinion or doctrine contrary to (usu. catholic) church dogma, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. ...


Bigoted

Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed opinion practice or ritual unreasonably devoted to a system or party and illiberal toward the opinions of others...


Bigotry

The state of mind of a bigot obstinate and unreasoning attachment of ones own belief and opinions with narrow minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them...


Bourbonism

The principles of those adhering to the house of Bourbon obstinate conservatism...


Bullheaded

Having a head like that of a bull Fig Headstrong obstinate dogged...


Cobby

Headstrong obstinate...


Contumacious

Exhibiting contumacy contemning authority obstinate perverse stubborn disobedient...


cussed

stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing obstinate...


Doggedly

In a dogged manner sullenly with obstinate resolution...


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