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Home Dictionary Name: repeatRepeating
Doing the same thing over again accomplishing a given result many times in succession as a repeating firearm a repeating watch...
repeat offender
repeat offender : a person who has been convicted of a crime on more than one occasion ...
Repeat
The act of repeating repetition...
Repeater
One who or that which repeats...
Habitual
Habitual, means repeated several times. Management of Monghyr Factory of I.T.C. Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1978 SC 1428 (1434): (1978) 3 SCC 504: (1978) 3 SCR 1044.The expression 'habitual' would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing together similar repeated acts. An isolated default of rent would not mean that tenant was a habitual defaulter, Vijay Amba Das Diware v. Balkrishna Wamon Dande, AIR 2000 SC 1414 (1416): (2000) 4 SCC 126. (Rent Control and Eviction)A habitual offender or a person habitually addicted to crime is one who is a criminal by habit or by disposition formed by repetition of crimes, Dhanji Ram Sharma v. Supt. of Police, AIR 1966 SC 1766 (1767). [Punjab Police Rules, 1934, R. 23.4 (3) (b)]Means constant customary, addicted to a specified habit. In other word it would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing together similar repeated acts, Advanced Law Lexicon, 3rd Edn. by P. Ramanatha Aiy...
Habitually
Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappu Nawabkhan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985, s. 2(c)]The word 'habitually'connotes some degree of fre-quency and continuity. It requires a continuance and permanence of some tendency, something that has developed into a propensity, that is, present from day-to-day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fourth Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1204, Vijay Narain Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1984 SC 1334 (1338): (1984) 3 SCC 14: (1984) 3 SCR 435.Means 'usually' and 'generally', Mustakmiya Jabbar-miya Shaikh v. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police, (1995) 3 SCC 237.Would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing ...
Reiterate
To repeat again and again to say or do repeatedly sometimes to repeat...
Practice
Practice, connotes repeated events but that will not affect the construction to be placed on the words 'unfair labour practice to dismiss or discharge, Hindustan Lever Ltd. v. Ashok V. Kate, AIR 1966 SC 285, p. 301, (see Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971, Sch. IV, item 1).Practice, denotes the mode of proceeding by which a legal right is enforced as distinguished from the law which gives and defines the right, State of Seraikella v. Union of India, AIR 1951 SC 253: 1951 SCR 474: 1951 SCJ 425.Practice, includes any practice relating to the carrying on of any trade by a person or an enterprise. [Competition Act, 2002 (92 of 2003), s. 2(m)]The form and manner of conducting and carrying on suits, actions, or prosecutions at law or in equity, civil or criminal, through their various stages, from the commencement to final judgment and execution, according to principles and rules laid down by the several Courts. As to the precise meani...
battered woman's syndrome
battered woman's syndrome : the psychological symptoms suffered by a woman repeatedly abused by a mate (as a husband) NOTE: Battered woman's syndrome is used as a defense to violent criminal charges (as homicide). Evidence of repeated abuse is used to show that the defendant acted in self-defense even though the threat or danger was not imminent. Battered woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing. ...
Beat
To strike repeatedly to lay repeated blows upon as to beat ones breast to beat iron so as to shape it to beat grain in order to force out the seeds to beat eggs and sugar to beat a drum...
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