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Prevaricate

To shift or turn from one side to the other from the direct course or from truth to speak with equivocation to shuffle to quibble as he prevaricates in his statement...


Prevarication

The act of prevaricating shuffling or quibbling to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth a deviation from the truth and fair dealing...


Prevaricator

One who prevaricates...


Prevarication

Prevarication, a collusion between an informer and a defendant, in order to a feigned prosecution. Also, any secret abuse committed in a public office or private commission; also, the wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth, by giving evasive or equivocating evidence....


Haffle

To stammer to speak unintelligibly to prevaricate...


Legal justice and natural justice

Legal justice and natural justice, the expression 'natural justice' and 'legal justice' do not present a water-tight classification. It is the substance of justice which is to be secured by both, and whenever legal justice fails to achieve this solemn purpose, natural justice is called in aid of legal justice. Natural justice relieves legal justice from unnecessary technicality, grammatical pedantry or logical prevarication. It supplies the omissions of a formulated law, Canara Bank v. Debasis Das, AIR 2003 SC 2041 (2047): (2003) 4 SCC 557....


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