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Has reason to believe

a pretence. It is open to the Court to examine whether the reasons for the belief have a rational connection or a relevant bearing to the formation of the belief and are not extraneous or irrelevant to

Petitio principii

as such, when it is really dubious, perhaps false, or at least wants to be proved, before any rational inference can be drawn from it. For a discussion of the further question 'Is the syllogism a petitio

Hope and believe

Hope and believe, There is a marked difference between 'hope' and 'believe'. 'To hope' means 'to want and expect'; 'to look forward with expectation and desire'. 'Hope' is a wishful feeling floating on nebulous foams projected...

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Legitimate expectation

important aspect is whether the decision-maker can sustain the change in policy by resort to wednesbury principles of rationality or whether the court can go into the question whether the decision-maker has properly balanced the legitimate expectation

Political sufferer

Political sufferer, should be an identifiable who could be recognised as such on certain rational basis. A person to be a political sufferer must have suffered in any one of the five ways

Reason to suspect

Reason to suspect, the expression 'reason to suspect the commission of an offence' would mean the sagacity of rationally inferring the commission of a cognizable offence based on the specific articulate facts mentioned in the First Information

Reasonable action

Reasonable action, means which is an informed, intelligent just minded, civilized man could rationally favour, R.K. Garg v. Union of India, 1982 SCC (Tax) 30.

Reasonableness and in public interest

SCC 248 that Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State action and since the principle of reasonableness and rationality, which is legally as well as philoso-phically an essential element of equality or non-arbitrariness, is projected by this

Relevant

connected and tending to prove or disprove a matter in issue having appreciable probative value -- That is, rationally tending to persuade people of probability or possibility of some alleged fact, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Rooks

(1824) 2 B&C 934. But see FER' NATUR' and the qualified right of property, and therefore of action, ratione impotenti' in regard to young birds' nests.

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