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Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners

prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners' has a restricted meaning. It must be given a rational meaning to effectuate the purpose behind the provision so as not to attract the vice of solitary confinement.

Under any customary or personal law applicable to parties

organised by the custom of the community or the personal law of the parties. There must be a rational relation between the sum so paid and its potential as provision for main-tenance; to interpret otherwise is to

Advowson

right originated in an agreement that a builder of a church and his heirs should be its patrons ratione fundationis, yet the greater number of them were primarily appendant, becoming by subsequent circumstances severed in gross. The

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Arbitrarily

Arbitrarily, The expression 'arbitrarily' means: in an unreasonable manner, as fixed or done capriciously or at pleasure, without adequate determining principle, not founded in the nature of things, non-rational, not done or acting according to reason...

black market

the illicit buying and selling of goods in violation of price controls rationing tax laws prohibition of sale etc

Sensationalism

Locke that our ideas originate solely in sensation and consist of sensations transformed sensualism opposed to intuitionalism and rationalism

existentialism

of anguish Existentialism is concerned more with concrete existence rather than abstract theories of essences is contrasted with rationalism and empiricism and is associated with Kierkegaard Heidegger and Sartre as well as others

basis

on which something else is established [the court could not imagine any conceivable for the statute] see also rational basis 2 : a basic principle or method ;esp : the principle or method by which taxable income

capricious

capricious 1 : governed or characterized by impulse or whim: as a : lacking a rational basis b : likely to change suddenly 2 : not supported by the weight of evidence or established

insane delusion

insane delusion : a false belief in a nonexistent state of facts in which no rational person would believe that deprives a person of the capacity to make a will and renders any will

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