Skip to content

Significant - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

meaningful

Having a meaning or purpose having significance as a meaningful explanation a meaningful discussion a meaningful pause to live a meaningful life Opposite of meaningless

Nebbish

A person who is ineffectual timid and often luckless a person of no significance

nonequivalent

Not equal or interchangeable in value quantity or significance

Keep your definitions linked to case research

pissant

Worthless or of no significance

Pregnantly

In a pregnant manner fruitfully significantly

Adequate

545 thus: 'Adequate' means fully equal to requirements or occasions, commensurate... but in its primary has more popular significance nothing can be said to be 'adequate' which is not equal to what is required, suitable to the

Affairs of State

State is concerned. [Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 123] The expression 'affairs of State' in its ordinary significance is of the widest amplitude and will mean the entire business of State. It takes in the routine

As the case may be

of need will apply accordingly. Where, however, there is no such separate and distinct unit, it has no significance, Sobramaniam Sharmugham v. M. L. Rajendras, AIR 1987 SC 2166 (2167): (1987) 4 SCC 215. [T. N. Buildings

Bar of the House

to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is

Women's modesty

may be under the spell of anaesthesia, she may be sleeping, she may be unable to appreciate the significance of the act: nevertheless, the offender is punishable under the section, State of Punjab v. Major Singh, AIR

  • Next ›

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial