Self Degradation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: self degradationSelf degradation
The act of degrading ones self or the state of being so degraded...
Self abasement
Degradation of ones self by ones own act...
Degradation
Degradation, a deprivation of dignity; dismissal from office. An ecclesiastical censure, whereby a clergyman is divested of his holy orders. There ae two sorts by the canon law; one, summary, by word only; the other, solemn, by stripping the party degraded of those ornaments and rights which are the ensigns of his degree. Degradation is otherwise called deposition, but the canonists have distingui-shed between these two terms, deeming the former as the greater punishment of the two. There is likewise a degradation of a lord or knight at Common Law and also by Act of Parliament, 13 Car. 2, c. 16....
degrading
causing humiliation or degradation as a degrading surrender...
Degradation
The act of reducing in rank character or reputation or of abasing a lowering from ones standing or rank in office or society diminution as the degradation of a peer a knight a general or a bishop...
Degrade
To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree to lower in rank to deprive of office or dignity to strip of honors as to degrade a nobleman or a general officer...
Degradement
Deprivation of rank or office degradation...
degradingly
In a degrading manner...
Degradations
Degradations, a term for waste in the French law....
self-insure
self-insure : to insure by self-insurance (as in workers' compensation) [an employer wishing to its liability "Pennsylvania Statutes"] vi : to use self-insurance [a governmental agency that s] self-in·sur·er n ...
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