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Home Dictionary Name: offensiveOffensive trade
Offensive trade, the word 'offensive' has got no technical meaning assigned to it in any legal enactment and it is not, therefore, possible to say that this word must be interpreted in that particular technical sense. Resort to the dictionary meaning of the word the setting up of a brick kiln or the preparing of bricks is a business which is liable or calculated to cause annoyance to the residents of the neighbourhood and it is, therefore, an offensive trade within the meaning of District Board Act, Sat Narain v. Emperor, AIR 1942 All 440: 1942 ALW 557....
Offensive and defensive league
Offensive and defensive league, means a league binding the parties not only to aid one another when attacked but also to support one another when attacking in offensive warfare, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1110....
Offensive matter
Offensive matter, 'offensive matter' includes animals, carcases, kitchen or stable refuse, dung, dirt, putrid or putrefying substance and filth of any kind which is not included in sewage. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(39)]...
Grossly offensive
Grossly offensive, was an ordinary English phrase with no special legal content which it was for the Justices to apply to the facts as they found them. What is offensive has to be judged by the standards of an open and just multiracial society, Director of Public Prosecutions v. Collins, (2006) 1 WLR 308 QB; see also (English) Communications Act, 2003, s. 127; Cozens v. Brutus, (1978) AC 854: (1972) 3 WLR 521: (1972) 2 All ER 1297 HL(E)....
offensive
offensive 1 : of, relating to, or designed for attack [ weapons] 2 : causing displeasure or resentment ;esp : contrary to a particular or prevailing sense of what is decent, proper, or moral [depicted sexual acts in a patently way] see also obscene of·fen·sive·ly adv of·fen·sive·ness n ...
Noxious or offensive gas
Noxious or offensive gas. Very comprehensively defined by s. 27 (1) of the Alkali, etc. (English) Works Regulation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 14), which by s. 2 enjoins the owner of every alkali work to use the best practicable means for preventing the discharge of the gas into the atmosphere; and see Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 72 to 82....
Offenseful
Causing offense displeasing wrong as an offenseful act...
Nuisance
Nuisance [fr. nuire, Fr., to hurt], something noxious of offensive. Any unauthorised act which, without direct physical interference, materially impairs the use and enjoyment by another of his property, or prejudicially affects his health, comfort, or convenience, is a nuisance.Nuisance may be distinguished from negligence in that nuisance is an act or omission causing injury, the injury itself giving rise to an action for damages, while a person suffering from damage due to negligence must prove that the damage was caused by some want of care, according to its degree which was required in the particular circumstances of the case. Actions against persons or public undertakings for damage under statutory powers are generally founded on negligence. Where the actual method of exercising the power creating a nuisance is indicated by the statute negligence in the authorised method may be actionable. The onus appears to be on a defendant pleading that the nuisance was inevitable and compulso...
League
League [ligue, Fr.; ligo, Lat.], a treaty of alliance between different states or parties. it may be offensive, or defensive, or both. It is offensive when the contracting parties agree to unite in attacking a common enemy; defensive when the parties agree to act in concert in defending each other against an enemy.Also a measure equal to three English miles, or 3,000 geometrical paces....
Scandal
Scandal, a report or rumour, or an action whereby one is affronted in public.Disgraceful, shameful, or degrading acts or conducts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1345.Scandal, in pleadings, is injurious, by making the records of the court the means of perpetuating libellous and malignant slanders; and the Court, in aid of the public morals, is bound to interfere to suppress such indecencies.It is provided by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 27, that scandalous matter may be ordered to be struck out from any pleading, and by Ord. XXXVIII., r. 11, from affidavits.Scandal, consists in the allegation of anything which is unbecoming the dignity of the court to hear, or is contrary to decency or good manners, or which charges some person with a crime not necessary to be shown in the cause, to which may be added that any unnecessary allegation, bearing cruelly upon the moral character of an individual, is also scandalous. The matter alleged must not be only offensive, but also irrel...
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