Skip to content

Reasonably - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

cause

cause and intervening cause in this entry supervening cause : intervening cause in this entry 2 : a reason or justification for an action or state (as belief): as a : good cause in this entry [an

Just

Just, the expression 'just' denotes equitability, fairness and reasonableness, and non arbitrary. If it is not so it cannot be just (See Helen C. Rebello v. Maharashtra

Presetment of Bill of Exchange, Cheque, or Pro-missory Note

When a bill payable after sight is negotiated, the holder must either present or negotiate it within a reasonable time (s. 40). 'The presentment must be made by or on behalf of the holder to the drawee

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Cruelty

manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty

Desertion

evidence of desertion, and a wife without cause refusing marital intercourse cannot allege 'desertion' by the husband 'without reasonable excuse' if in consequence he refuses to live with her, Synge v. Synge, 1901, P. 317. In Scotland,

Retrenchment

(2003) 4 SCC 27. Means the termination by the employer of the service of a workman for any reason whatsoever, otherwise than as a punishment inflicted by way of disciplinary action but does not include-- (a) voluntary

Magna Carta

her dower be to her assigned, as it is aforesaid, and she shall have in the meantime her reasonable estovers of the common; and for her dower shall be assigned unto her the third part of all

use

beneficial use of the property] see also unnecessary hardship compare taking 2 : use of water for a reasonable or beneficial purpose consistent with the public interest [authorize the diversion of water for beneficial use] conditional use

Common employment

been a workman of, nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work':' (i) By reason of a defect in the condition of the works or plant connected with or used in the business

Act of God

Act of God, a direct, violent, sudden, and irresistible act of nature, which could not, by any reasonable care, have been foreseen or resisted, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423. The general rule is

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial