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Reasonable cause

Reasonable cause, means a cause which prevents a reasonable man of an ordinary prudence acting under normal circumstances, without negligence or inaction or want of bona fide from furnishing the return

Reprisal

seizure than reprisals, but they are frequently confounded in common language, Vattel, by Chit. 283. Reprisals are either ordinary, as arresting and taking the goods of merchant-strangers within the realm, or extra-ordinary, as satisfaction out of the

Reserve and provision

'reserve' has not been defined in the Act and therefore one would be inclined to resort to its ordinary natural meaning as given in the dictionary but it seems to us that the dictionary meaning, though useful

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Residence

than twelve months, interfere with the discharge of the duties of the benefice as entrusted to the curate. Ordinary meaning.--The word 'resides' denotes 'the place where an individual eats, drinks, and sleeps, or where his family or

Retrenchment

Retrenchment, in its ordinary connotation is discharge of labour as surplus though the business or work itself is continued, S.M. Nilajkar v.

Rule of law

the influence of arbitrary power; equality before the law or the equal subjection of all classes to the ordinary law courts, constitution is the result of the ordinary law of the land, Introduction to the Study of

Mesne profit

property means those profits which the person in wrongful possession of such property actually received or might with ordinary diligence have received therefrom, together with interest on such profits, but shall not include profits due to improvements

Terrorist activity

The fallout of the intended activity is to be one that it travels beyond the capacity of the ordinary law-enforcement agencies to tackle it under the ordinary penal law. It is in essence a deliberate and systematic

Use of dictionaries

Use of dictionaries, the ordinary dictionary mean-ing cannot be discarded simply because it is given in a dictionary. To do that would be

Mineral and minor mineral

Mineral and minor mineral, The word 'mineral' is not a term of art. It is a word of common parlance, capable of a multiplicity of meanings depending upon the context. The expression 'minor mineral' as defined...

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