Wilful - Law Dictionary Search Results
Misfeasance and non-feasance
Misfeasance and non-feasance, there is a distinction between misfeasance (positive action) and non-feasance (omission). Misfeasance is wilful, reckless or heedless conduct in commission of a positive act lawfully done but with improper conduct. Non-feasance means
Judge
will not permit any error to be assigned that impeached them in their trust and office, and in wilful abuse of the same, but only in ignorance, and mistaking either of the law or of the case
Justifiable homicide
crew were dying of famine, it was held, upon a special verdict, not to be justifiable homicide but wilful murder for two of them to kill a boy to feed upon his body. The prisoners in this
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Leave
Leave, having regard to the language of Rule 123 doubtless the word 'leave' has been used as a verb and not as a noun. Taking the word in its ordinary parlance if used as a verb...
Master and servant
committed by his servant in the course of or under colour of his employ, but not for any wilful misfeasance of the servant. To this general liability the Common Law, as laid down in Priestly v. Fowler,
Mens rea and negligence
state of the accused and requires proof of a positive state of mind such as intent, recklessness or wilful blindness. Negligence, on the other hand, measures the conduct of the accused on the basis of an objective
If from any cause whatsoever
the words 'if from any cause whatsoever' are to be read, 'if from any cause whatsoever' than the wilful default of the vendor, Palmerston, Lord v. Turner, 33 LJ Ch 457
Oath
to administer an oath to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the Act. And any person wilfully making such declaration false in any material particular is guilty of a misdemeanour. Promissory oaths are those required
Outlawry
Outlawry [fr. utlagaria, Lat.], the being put out of the law for contempt in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Court. Outlawry has long been obsolete in civil proceedings,
Perjury
as follows: If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a 'judicial proceed-ing' wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to
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