Willful Blindness - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: willful blindnesswillful blindness
willful blindness : deliberate failure to make a reasonable inquiry of wrongdoing (as drug dealing in one's house) despite suspicion or an awareness of the high probability of its existence NOTE: Willful blindness involves conscious avoidance of the truth and gives rise to an inference of knowledge of the crime in question. ...
Blinding
Making blind or as if blind depriving of sight or of understanding obscuring as blinding tears blinding snow...
Blind eye knowledge
Blind eye knowledge, requires a suspicion of a truth about which one does not want to know and which one refuses to investigate, Manifest Shipping Company Ltd. v. Uni-Polaris Shipping Company Ltd., (2001) 2 WLR 170 (HL): (2001) UKHL 1 (HL).Blind-eye knowledge, requires a conscious reason for blinding the eye. There must be at least a suspicion of a truth about which the court does not want to know and which one refuses to investigate, Manifest Shipping Co. Ltd. v. Uni-polaris Shipping Co. Ltd., (2001) 2 WLR 170 (HL): (2001) UKHL 1....
Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English)
Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English). Applies the Old Age Pensions Acts to persons who are so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential at the age of 50 instead of 70. The Act has further provisions as to charities for and the welfare of blind persons....
knowledge
knowledge 1 a : awareness or understanding esp. of an act, a fact, or the truth : actual knowledge in this entry b : awareness that a fact or circumstance probably exists ; broadly : constructive knowledge in this entry see also scienter, willful blindness NOTE: Knowledge fundamentally differs from intent in being grounded in awareness rather than purpose. ac·tu·al knowledge 1 : direct and clear awareness (as of a fact or condition) [the bank had actual knowledge that the name and account number referred to different persons] 2 : awareness of such information as would cause a reasonable person to inquire further ; specif : such awareness considered as a timely and sufficient substitute for actual notice (as of a work-related injury or of a bankruptcy proceeding) [ruled that the employer did not have actual notice or actual knowledge within 90 days] con·struc·tive knowledge : knowledge (as of a condition or fact) that one using ordinary care or diligenc...
Color blind
Affected with color blindness See Color blindness under Color n...
Blind
Blind, blindness contemplates total disability, Lal Chand v. State of Haryana, (1999) 6 SCC 760, [Service Law]....
Deaf and dumb and blind
Deaf and dumb and blind. A man that is born deaf, dumb, and blind is looked upon by the law as in the same state with an idiot, he being supposed incapable of any understanding. Nevertheless, a deaf and dumb person, i.e., a 'mute by the visitation of God,' may be tried for felony if the prisoner can read or write and be made to understand by means of signs or symbols (1 Leach, C. L. 102). As to when he is a competent witness, see Tayl. on Evid. s. 1248; John Ruston's case (1786), Leach, Cr Ca 408.There is, general, no separate affliction of dumbness, apart from deafness, of which dumbness is the necessary result.Education.--As to the education of afflicted children, provision is made for instruction suitable to the condition of the child by the (English) Education Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 61-67....
blinded
deprived of ones sight rendered blind...
Blindness
State or condition of being blind literally or figuratively...
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