Reluctant - Law Dictionary Search Results
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To strive or struggle against anything to make resistance to draw back to feel or show repugnance or reluctance...
Reluctance
The state or quality of being reluctant repugnance aversion of mind unwillingness often followed by an infinitive or by to and a noun formerly sometimes by against...
Reluctantly
In a reluctant manner...
Reluctation
Repugnance resistance reluctance...
Reluctivity
Specific reluctance...
Oersted
The C G S unit of magnetic reluctance or resistance equal to the reluctance of a centimeter cube of air or vacuum between parallel faces Also a reluctance in which unit magnetomotive force sets up unit flux...
accommodate
accommodate -dat·ed -dat·ing 1 : to make a change or provision for [ a disability] see also reasonable accommodation 2 : to accept without compensation responsibility for a debt of (another person) in the event of nonpayment as a way of reassuring a reluctant creditor see also accommodation paper at paper accommodation party at party NOTE: To accommodate a debtor effectively, the party must sign the debt instrument, adding words describing limitations or conditions to the accommodation, if any. ac·com·mo·da·tion [ə-kÄ -mə-dā-shən] n ...
substantive consolidation
substantive consolidation Putting the assets and liabilities of two or more related debtors into a single pool to pay creditors. (Courts are reluctant to allow substantive consolidation since the action must not only justify the benefit that one set of creditors receives, but also the harm that other creditors suffer as a result.) Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
wrongful life
wrongful life : a malpractice claim brought by or on behalf of a child born with a birth defect alleging that he or she would never have been born if not for the negligent advice or treatment provided to the parents by a physician or health-care provider ;also : the life or injury at issue in such a claim [recovery for wrongful life] NOTE: Wrongful life claims have usually been rejected by the courts. The injury is not the birth defect, but the life itself, and courts are reluctant to declare life an injury. A specific calculation of damages for wrongful life would entail affixing a monetary value to the difference between life in an impaired state and nonexistence. There is no legally established right not to be born. ...
Backwardly
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