Self Satisfaction - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: self satisfactionSelf enjoyment
Enjoyment of ones self self satisfaction...
Self satisfaction
The quality or state of being self satisfied...
Self satisfying
Giving satisfaction to ones self...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction, legal compensation; the recompense for an injury done, or the payment of money due and owing. See ACCORD.The giving of something with the intention, express or implied, that it is to extinguish some existing legal or moral obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1343.The doctrine of satisfaction of legacies, portions, and debts means the gift of a thing with the intention, either expressed or implied, that it is to be taken either wholly or partly in extinguishment of some prior claim or demand. Of course, it is open to a donor expressly to provide that his subsequent gift shall be a satisfaction of a prior demand, so as to prevent such donee from claiming both. With regard to implied or presumable satisfactions, they have been divided in to the three following classes:-(1) The satisfaction of legacies by portions, otherwise called the ademption of legacies. Upon this subject Lord Eldon laid down in Ex parte Pye, (1811) 18 Ves. 140; 2 W. & T.L.C., that 'where a p...
Satisfaction of Governor
Satisfaction of Governor, wherever Constitution requires the satisfaction of Governor for exercise of any power or function, the satisfaction required by Constitution is not the personal satisfaction of Governor but the satisfaction in the Constitutional sense under the cabinet system of Government, implying that Governor exercises all his powers and functions by or under the Constitution on the aid and advice of the Council of Ministers, PU Myllai Hlychho v. State of Mizoram, (2005) 2 SCC 12....
satisfaction
satisfaction 1 a : the act or fact of satisfying b : execution of an accord by performance of the substituted obligation often used in the phrase accord and satisfaction compare accord, transaction c : a document indicating that an obligation has been satisfied [a of mortgage] 2 : the quality or state of being satisfied ...
Satisfaction on the Roll, Entry of
Satisfaction on the Roll, Entry of. As soon as a judgment is satisfied, by payment, levy, or otherwise, the defendant is entitled to have satisfaction entered upon the roll, 1 Chit. Arch. Prac., 12th Edn. 721 et seq, and see QUIETUS...
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 ...
Self acting
Acting of or by ones self or by itself said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency automatic as a self acting feed apparatus a self acting mule a self acting press...
Self government
The act of governing ones self or the state of being governed by ones self self control self command...
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