Perversity - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: perversityPerverse finding
Perverse finding, a finding cannot be said to be perverse if it is agasint the weight of evidence it is perverse, it is altogether against the evidence. Parry's (Calcutta) Employee's Union v. Prry and Co. Ltd., AIR 1966 Cal 31 (42). [Constitution of India, Art. 226]...
Perversity
The quality or state of being perverse perverseness...
Perverse order
Perverse order, an order made in conscious violation of the pleadings and law, is a perverse order. M.S. Narayanagouda v. Girijamma, AIR 1977 Kar 58 (60). [Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961 (10 of 1961), s. 48(2)]...
Perversedly
Perversely...
Perversely
In a perverse manner...
Perverseness
The quality or state of being perverse...
Perverse verdict
Perverse verdict, a verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law. See NEW TRIAL....
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...
Pravity
Deterioration degeneracy corruption especially moral crookedness moral perversion perverseness depravity as the pravity of human nature...
depraved
depraved : marked by moral corruption or perversion as shown by a capacity for extreme and wanton physical cruelty [the state of mind of the murderer] [the nature of the crime] ...
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