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Consent

of them. Hence it is that if consent be obtained by intimidation, force, meditated impositions, circumvention, surprise, or undue influence, it is to be treated as a delusion, and not as a deliberate and free act of

Consideration

equity would quash the contract, upon the ground that such great inequality betokens mutual mistake, or fraud or undue advantage on the one side, or mental incompetency on the other, and, inequity, inadequacy maybe a reason for

Fight

sudden quarrel and there was no premeditation. It must further be shown that the offender has not taken undue advantage or acted in cruel or unusual manner, Ghapoo Yadav v. State of Bihar, AIR 2003 SC 1620

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Fraud

the parties, are watched with special jealousy, because they afford the means of taking advantage of or exercising undue influence over others; such are transactions between parent and child, attorney and client, principal and agent, guardian and

Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854

grant reason-able facilities for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering their own traffic; (2) to abstain from giving an undue preference to any particular person or traffic; and (3) to forward traffic without delay in cases of continuous

Independent advice

a testator or donor received independent advice before making a disposition is often an important issue in an undue-influence challenge to the property disposition, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 774.

Induce

caused by the pay-ment of the gratification to a third person but by the persuasion or influence (not undue influence) of such third person it will not be possible to say that the gratification had any indirect

Mala fide

and circumstances, Prabodh Sagar v. Punjab State Electricity Board, (2005) 5 SCC 630. Means an action taken in undue haste may amount to be mala fide, Inderpreet Singh Kahlon v. State of Punjab, AIR 2006 (SC) 2571:

Malice

mind cannot be held to be suffering from malice in law on the ground that there had been undue on the part of the State and the Board. (1991) (4) SCC 54 followed, Chairman and MD BPL

Mediators of questions

questions, six persons authorised by statute, who, upon any question arising among merchants, relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple, upon their oath, certify and settle the

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