Wrongful Dishonor - Law Dictionary Search Results
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wrongful dishonor : a wrongful refusal by a payor bank to honor an item that is properly payable [a payor bank is liable to its customer for damages proximately caused by the wrongful dishonor of an item "Uniform Commercial Code"] ...
dishonor
dishonor : refusal on the part of the issuer (as a bank) to pay or accept commercial paper (as a check) when it is presented see also wrongful dishonor vt : to refuse to pay or accept [a bank ing the checks for insufficient funds] ...
Dishonor
To deprive of honor to disgrace to bring reproach or shame on to treat with indignity or as unworthy in the sight of others to stain the character of to lessen the reputation of as the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor...
Dishonorable
Wanting in honor not honorable bringing or deserving dishonor staining the character and lessening the reputation shameful disgraceful base...
Dishonorer
One who dishonors or disgraces one who treats another indignity...
Tort
Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court which could have been commenced in County Court, see s. 47, and COUNTY COURT. An action founded on tort was Tort [fr. tortus, Lat.], an injury or wrong independent of contract, as by assault, libel, malicious prosecution, negligence, slander, or trespass (see those titles). Actions are divided into actions in contract and actions in tort: see as to county Court jurisdiction in actions of tort when claim is under 100l. (except libel, slander seduction). See County Courts Act, 1934, s. 40, and as to costs of actions of tort commenced in High Court whic...
Gaining wrongfully
Gaining wrongfully, A person is said to gain wrongfully when such person retains wrongfully, as well as when such person acquires wrongfully. A person is said to lose wrongfully when such person is wrongfully kept out of any property, as well as when such person is wrongfully deprived of property. (Indian Penal Code, s. 23)...
Wrong
Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged ha...
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 such a defendant, without any right so to do, withholds the goods from the plaintiff after the plaintiff had demanded their return, he is, for such time as he so withholds them, guilty of wrongful detention. This is the trot of which a bailee or finder is guilty who is in possession of the goods and fails to deliver them a reasonable time after demand, though it may also, in the case of a bailee, be a breach of contract. If the bailee or finder subsequently disposes of the goods, he is guilty of conversion, but the wrongful detention then comes to an end and is swallowed up in the conversion, Dhian Singh Sobha Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1958 SC 274....
Wrongful gain
Wrongful gain, Wrongful gain includes wrongful retention and wrongful loss includes being kept out of the property as well as being wrongfully deprived of property. Therefore when a particular thing has gone into the hands of a servant he will be guilty of misappropriating the thing in all circumstances which show a malicious intent to derive the master of it, Krishna Kumar v. Union of India, AIR 1959 SC 1390 (1392). (Indian Penal Code, s. 24)Wrongful gain is gain by unlawful means of property to which the person gaining is not legally entitled. (Indian Penal Code, s. 23)...
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