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Erecto patent

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent or spreading

Dogmatize

To assert positively to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence to advance with arrogance

Sanctioned

Sanctioned, the word 'sanctioned' in s. 2(b) cannot be construed to mean sanctioned by the award and not by the settlement, Union of India v. Majur Mahajan Mandal, (1977) 1 SCC 548: AIR 1977 SC 714...

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Office

(1988) 2 SCR 370. By 'office' is meant the right and duty to exercise an employment or a position of authority and trust to which certain duties are attached, Shrilekha Vidyarthi Kumari v. State of U.P., AIR

Law

are imposed by, or by authority of a sovereign, the law becomes 'positive' (see Austin's Jurisprudence). Short of positive law the principle may be called a moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned only with

estoppel

in this entry compare waiver equitable estoppel : an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts a previous position maintained by words, silence, or actions when allowing the new position to be

Undue influence

influence'. Where the relations subsisting between the parties are such that one of the parties is in a position to dominate the Will of the other and uses that position to obtain an unfair advantage over the

Fiscal indicators

Produce Markets Act, 2005, s. 2(g). Means such indicators as may be prescribed for evaluation of the fiscal position of the State Government, Rajasthan Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2005, s. 2(g). Means the measures such

Just

denoting something which is morally right and fair and sometimes that which is right and fair accord-ing to positive law. It connotes reasonableness and something conforming to rectitude and justice. Something equitable fair (vide p. 1100 of

Prescription

as amended by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 57); and (2) positive, which relates to incorporeal here-ditaments, and originated at the Common Law from immemorial or long usage only. Positive

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