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Persuade

To influence or gain over by argument advice entreaty expostulation etc to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives...

Persuaded

Prevailed upon influenced by argument or entreaty convinced...

Persuasion

The act of persuading the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered or by anything that moves the mind or passions or inclines the will to a determination...

To argue in support of a claim or in defense against the claim of another to urge reasons for or against a thing to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication to speak by way of persuasion as to plead for the life of a criminal to plead with a judge or with a father...

Picketing

Picketing [fr. piquet Fr., a diminutive of pique a pike]. In its legal sense this word means the stationing of men to watch and accost workmen passing between their homes and place of employment in order thereby to induce them to come out on strike, or to remain on strike. Such proceeding is to some extent legalized by the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 47), s. 2 (1) of which is as follows:-2. (1) It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating informa-tion, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.But the right of picketing is limited to peaceful attendance, and by the (English) Trade Disputes and Trade Union...

Burden of proof

Burden of proof [onus probandi, Lat.]. the most prominent canon of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, nonqui negat; Actori incumbit onus probandi; and Affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio. The burden of proof lies on the person who has to support his case by proof of a fact which is peculiarly within his own knowledge, or of which he is supposed to be cognizant. See Best on Evidence, Bk. III., Pt. 1, ch. 2.The expression 'burden of proof' really means two different things. It means sometimes that a party is required to prove an allegation before judgment can be given in its favour; it also means that on a contested issue one of the two contending parties has to introduce evidence, Narayan Bhagwantrao Gosavi v. Gopal Vinayak Gosavi, AIR 1960 SC 100: (1960) 1 SCR 773: (1960) SCJ 263.The phrase 'burden of proof' has not been defined in the Indian Evidence Act....

Confidence trick

Confidence trick. Where A. persuaded B. by a trick to deposit money or property with A. or a third party in order to show that B. trusts A. or the third party. Usually a preliminary to some joint but fictitious undertaking promising enormous bene-fits to B. Where the possession of money or goods is obtained under a contract induced by fraud, the person so fradulently obtaining possession may be convicted of larceny. In order to reduce the taking under such circumstances from larceny to fraud the transaction must be incomplete. The term 'confidence trick' is also familiarly applied to other cases, of which there are many examples. See R. v. Russett, (1892) 2 QB 312, in which the prisoner purported to sell a horse for 23l., and required the buyer to pay 8l. forthwith and the balance on delivery of the horse, but never in fact delivered the horse or intended to do so, R. v. Buckmaster, (1887) 20 QBD 182, 'welching' on a racecourse....

Forestalling the market

Forestalling the market, buying up merchandise on its way to market, or dissuading persons to bring their goods there, or persuading them to enhance the price when there. It was deemed an offence against public trade, but the statutes prohibiting it were repealed by 7 & 8 Vict. c. 24....

Laudare

Laudare, to advise or persuade; to arbitrate....

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