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The attitude or practice of trying to keep one step ahead of a friend or competitor vigorous competitiveness...
ex parte
ex parte [Medieval Latin, on behalf (of)] : on behalf of or involving only one party to a legal matter and in the absence of and usually without notice to the other party [an ex parte motion] [relief granted ex parte] used in citations to indicate the party seeking judicial relief in a case [Ex Parte Jones, 7 U.S. 2 (1866)] compare in re, inter partes ...
Ex parte
Upon or from one side only one sided partial as an ex parte statement...
one dimensional
having only one dimension as a line is a one dimensional object a one dimensional array...
one eyed
having or showing only one eye as one eyed Jacks are wild the three one eyed Cyclopes of Greek myth...
one woman
Designed for or restricted to a single person same as one man but used when the person in question is female or to avoid sexist language as a one woman submarine a one woman show...
Not being less than one month
Not being less than one month, the words 'not being less than one month' do imply that clear one month's notice was necessary to be given, that is, both the first day and the last day of the month had to be excluded, Pioneer Motors (P) Ltd. v. Municipal Council, AIR 1967 SC 684 (687): (1961) 3 SCR 609. [Travancore District Municipalities Act, 1116 (23 of 1116), s. 78 Proviso]...
On one's own account
On one's own account, means 'for one's own sake; on one's responsibility, American Express Bank Ltd. v. Calcutta Steel Co., (1993) 2 SCC 199 (209)....
One behalf of
One behalf of, therefore, carried a sense that one is representative of another whereas 'for the benefit of' is an expression with the meaning that one is the legal owner himself, Aiyar's Judicial Diction-ary, 10th Edn., 1988, p. 729; Kripa Shanker D. Worah v. C.W.T., 1966 Pat 371: (1966) 2 ITJ 790....
One person, one vote rule
One person, one vote rule, means the principal that the Equal Protection Clause requires legislative voting districts to have about the same population, Reynolds v. Sims, 377 US 533: 84 S Ct 1362 (1964)....
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