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Motley

Variegated in color consisting of different colors dappled party colored as a motley coat

Colour

Colour, a term of the ancient rhetoricians, and early adopted into the language of pleading. It was an apparent

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to receive (a communication or signal directed elsewhere) usually secretly [shall not be unlawful…for a person acting under color of law to a wire, oral, or electronic communication where such person is a party to the communication

Title

property and the property itself, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1493. Title: 1, a general head, comprising particulars, as in a book; 2, an appellation of honour or dignity; 3, the means whereby the owner of

Fraud

in restraint of trade. Other transactions again, growing out of a special confidential or fiduciary relation between the parties, are watched with special jealousy, because they afford the means of taking advantage of or exercising undue influence … provision of statute by adopting subterfuge or the power may be exercised for extraneous or irrelevant considerations. The colour of fraud in public law or administrative law, as it is developing, is assuming different shades. It aries

Master and servant

no wages are payable until the end of the year. Consult Burn's Justice, tit. 'Servants.' 2nd Servants in particular trades. These (who are now more frequently termed 'workmen,' their masters being termed 'employers') are subject to the … master. A master is liable civilly for torts committed by his servant in the course of or under colour of his employ, but not for any wilful misfeasance of the servant. To this general liability the Common

Judge

action, he is incapacitated from officiating, on the principle that Nemo debet esse-judex inpropria sua causa, unless the parties agree that he should decide the cause. See Dimes v. Grand Junction Canal Co., (1852) 3 HLC 759; … de facto is one who is not a mere intruder or usurper but one who holds office, under colour of lawful authority, though his appointment is defective and may later be found to be defective. Whatever be

Undertaking

Undertaking, denotes 'any business or any work or project which one engages in or attempts as an enterprise analogous to business or trade, Secretary Madras Gymkhana Club Employees Union v. Manage-ment of Gymkhana Club, AIR 1968...

oppression

of power: as a : unlawful, wrongful, or corrupt exercise of authority by a public official acting under color of authority that causes a person harm b : dishonest, unfair, wrongful, or burdensome conduct by corporate directors

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