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Cum duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testament ultimum ratum est

duo inter se pugnantia reperiuntur in testament ultimum ratum est [Lat.], Where two clauses in a will are repugnant one to the other, the last in order shall prevail.

Curtesy of England

34 Vict. c. 23). A condition to restrain the husband of a feme-donee in tail from curtesy is repugnant and void, Co. Litt. 224 a. An estate by the curtesy, in respect of the estate tail,or of

Avyavaharik debt

not admissible under the law or under normal conditions. Colebrooke translated it as 'a debt for a cause repugnant to good morals', S.M. Jakati v. S. M. Borkar, AIR 1959 SC 282 (286): 1959 SCR 1384; See

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Revolting

Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust exciting extreme repugnance loathsome as revolting cruelty

Knowledge

consequence being fore-known as the inevitable concomitant of that which is desired, but being itself an object of repugnance rather than desire, and therefore not intended, John Salmond, Jurisprudence, 380-381, Glanville L Williams; see also Black's Law

Impotency

marriage a practical impossibility. Impotency may arise on account of physical defect or mental condition such as total repugnance to the sexual act, Digvijoy v. Pratap Kumari, AIR 1970 SC 87.

Doctrine severability

Article 254, the former with regard to contravention of a Fundamental Right and the latter with regard to repugnancy of the State Law in relation to a Law of Parliament, Constitution of India, Art. 13(1)(2) and Art.

Concurrent list

Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 4, 5th Edn., p. 178. The question of repugnancy arises in case of subjects enumerated in concurrent list, Deep Chand v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1959

Self contradiction

The act of contradicting ones self or itself repugnancy in conceptions or in terms a proposition consisting of two members one of which contradicts the other as

Recalcitrant

Kicking back recalcitrating hence showing repugnance or opposition refractory

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