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Wrong, injury and damage

Wrong, injury and damage, the word 'wrong' in ordinary legal language means and signifies 'privation of right'. An act

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Wrongful gain, wrongful loss

Wrongful gain, wrongful loss, a person can be said to have dishonest intention if in taking the property it is his intention to cause gain, by unlawful means, of the property to which the person so...

Person interested

Person interested, includes a person engaged in, or in promoting, research in the same field as that to which the invention relates. [Patents Act, 1970 (39 of 1970), s. 2(t)] The definition of the 'person interested'...

Injurious

Not just wrongful iniquitous culpable

Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement

Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement, the cause of action in wrongful detention is based on a wrongful withholding or to the plaintiff's goods. It depends on the defendant being in possession of the plaintiff's goods. If...

Counter-claim

Counter-claim, the word 'counter-claim' in s. 19(8) to (11) which is equated to a cross-suit, includes a claim if it is made in an independent suit filed earlier, Union of India, v. Abhijit Tea Co. (P.)

Claim

Claim [fr. clamer, Fr.; clamo,Lat., to call], a challenge of interest of anything which is in another's possession, or

great bodily injury

great bodily injury : physical injury suffered by the victim of a violent crime that causes a substantial risk of death,

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