Subversion - Law Dictionary Search Results
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subversion : a systematic attempt to overthrow or undermine a government or political system by persons working from within ;also : the crime of committing acts in furtherance of such an attempt sub·ver·sion·ary [-zhə-ner-ē] adj sub·ver·sive [-vər-siv] adj or n sub·ver·sive·ly adv sub·ver·sive·ness n ...
counter subversion
the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities...
Catastrophe
An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things a final event usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature hence sudden calamity great misfortune...
Destruction
The act of destroying a tearing down a bringing to naught subversion demolition ruin slaying devastation...
Eversive
Tending to evert or overthrow subversive with of...
Misconduct and quarrel
Misconduct and quarrel, Private quarrel between an employee and a stranger with which the employer is not concerned falls outside the categories of misconduct, it cannot be reasonably disputed that acts which are subversive of discipline amongst employees or misconduct or misbehaviour by an employee which is directed against another employee of the concern may in certain circumstances constitute misconduct so as to form the basis of an order of dismissal or discharge, Lalla Ram v. D.C.M. Chemical Works Ltd., AIR 1978 SC 1004: (1978) 3 SCC 1: (1978) 3 SCR 82....
Prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue
Prejudicial to the interests of the Revenue, regarded as involving a conception of acts or orders which are subversive of the administration of revenue. There must be some grievous error in the order passed by the Income Tax Officer, which might set a bad trend or pattern for similar assessments, which on a broad reckoning, the Commissioner might think to be prejudicial to the interests of Revenue Administration, Venkatakrishna Rice Co. v. C.I.T., (2000) 2 SCC 718....
Proxeneta
Proxeneta, a kind of broker or agent.All contracts for marriage (commonly called marri-age-brokage contracts), by which a party engages to give another a compensation if he will negotiate and advantageous marriage for him, are void, as being injurious to or subversive of the public interest; see Hermann v. Charlesworth, (1905) 2 KB 123. But the Civil Law does not seem to have held contracts of this sort in such severe rebuke; for it allowed proxenet', or match-makers, to receive a reward for their services to a limited extent, 1 Story's Eq. Jurisp., s. 260....
Schoolmaster
Schoolmaster. To an action of trespass for an assault and battery the defendant pleaded that he was the headmaster of a school or college, of which the plaintiff was a pupil, and that the plaintiff combined with other pupils for purposes subversive of the discipline of the school, and the plea was held good: see Fitzgerald v. Northcote, (1865) 4 F&F 656. As to the extent of the powers of a schoolmaster in this respect, see Cleary v. Booth, (1893) 1 QB 465. As to the power of an assistant teacher in a public elementary school to administer corporal punishment, see Mansell v. Griffin, (1908) 1 KB 160 (947). As to the dismissal of a schoolmaster or mistress of a public elementary school, see Smith v. Macnally, (1912) 1 Ch 816; Meyers v. Humell, (1912) 2 Ch 256; Mitchell v. East Sussex C.C., (1914) 109 LT 778; Price v. Rhondda U.D.C., (1923) 2 Ch 372....
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