Quarrel - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: quarrelQuarreling
Engaged in a quarrel apt or disposed to quarrel as quarreling factions a quarreling mood...
Quarrel
Quarrel, a dispute, contest; also, an action real or personal.Means an altercation or angry dispute; an exchange of recriminations, taunts, threats, or accusations between two persons, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1256.Quarrel, is derived from querendo, and extends not only to actions as well real as personal, but also to the causes of actions and suits; so that by the release of all quarrels, not only actions depending in suit, but causes of actions and suit also are released; and quarrels, controversies and debates, are words of one sense, and of one and the same significations, Termes etc. la ley 330 (1st Am. Edn., 1812)....
Misconduct and quarrel
Misconduct and quarrel, Private quarrel between an employee and a stranger with which the employer is not concerned falls outside the categories of misconduct, it cannot be reasonably disputed that acts which are subversive of discipline amongst employees or misconduct or misbehaviour by an employee which is directed against another employee of the concern may in certain circumstances constitute misconduct so as to form the basis of an order of dismissal or discharge, Lalla Ram v. D.C.M. Chemical Works Ltd., AIR 1978 SC 1004: (1978) 3 SCC 1: (1978) 3 SCR 82....
Double complaint, or Double quarrel
Double complaint, or Double quarrel, duplex querela, a grievance made known by a clerk or other person, to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as to give sentence, or institute a clerk, as in the celebrated case of Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter, (1850) 19 LJ Ex 376, CP 200, QB 279, in which the plaintiff, a clerk, succeeded on appeal in duplex querela against the defendant for not instituting him on the ground of alleged unorthodox views on Baptism, etc. It is termed a double complaint, because it is most commonly made against both the judge and him at whose suit justice is denied or delayed; and by Canon 95 the period of two months which the bishop had to inquire of the sufficiency of a clerk was abridged to twenty-eight days, before the expiration of which a duplex querela could not be brought....
Double quarrel
Double quarrel. See DOUBLE COMPLAINT...
Fight
Fight. See CHALLENGES TO FIGHT.A fight is a combat between two and more persons whether with or without weapons. It is not possible to enunciate any general rule as to what shall be deemed to be a sudden quarrel. It is a question of fact and whether a quarrel is sudden or not must necessarily depend upon the proved facts of each case, Dhirajbhai Gorakhbhai Nayak v. State of Gujarat, (2003) 9 SCC 322 (327). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 300 Exception 4)A fight is a combat between two and more persons whether with or without weapons. It is not possible to enunciate any general rule as to what shall be deemed to be a sudden quarrel. It is a question of fact and whether a quarrel is sudden or not must necessarily depend upon the proved facts of each case. For the application of Exception 4, it is not sufficient to show that there was a sudden quarrel and there was no premeditation. It must further be shown that the offender has not taken undue advantage or acted in cruel or unusual manner, Ghapoo ...
Quarrelet
A little quarrel See 1st Quarrel 2...
Barratry
The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels...
Bolt
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult esp a short stout blunt headed arrow a quarrel an arrow or that which resembles an arrow a dart...
Boutefeu
An incendiary an inciter of quarrels...
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