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Toleration
TolerationIn some. countries, where religion is established by law, cer-tain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to exist, and this permission is called toleration. Those are per-mitted and allowed to remain rather as a matter of favor than a matter of right. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Religion Real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men. Law A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system. Permission A license to do a thing; an authority to do an act which without such authority would have been unlawful. Toleration In some. countries, where religion is established by law, cer-tain sects who do not agree with the established religion are nevertheless permitted to exist, and this permission is called toleration. Those are per-mitted and allowed to remain rather as a matter of favor than a matter of right. Matter Some substantial or essential thing, opposed to form; facts. Favor Bias partiality; lenity; prejudice. Right 1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- To set aside To annul; to make void; as to set aside an award. To utter Criminal law. To offer, to publish. To utter and publish a counterfeit note is to assert and declare, directly or indirectly, by words or actions, that the note offered is good. It is not necessary that it should be passed in order to complete the offence of uttering. Toft A place or piece of ground on which, a house formerly stood, which has been destroyed by accident or decay; it also signifies a messuage. Togati Roman civil law. Under the empire, when the toga had ceased to be the usual costume of the Romans, advocates were nevertheless obliged to wear it whenever they pleaded a cause. Hence they were called togati. This denomination received an official or legal sense in the imperial constitutions of the fifth and sixth centuries, and the words togati, consortium (corpus, ordo, collegium,) togatorum, frequently occur in those acts. Token 1) Contracts, crimes. A document or sign of the existence of a fact. 2) Commercial law. In England, this name is given to pieces of metal, made in the shape of money, passing among private persons by consent at a certain value. Toleration Toll 1) Contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain. 2) To toll. Estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry. Tolls In a general sense, tolls signify any manner of customs, subsidy, prestation, imposition, or sum of money demanded for exporting or importing of any wares or merchandise, to be taken of the buyer. Ton Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. Tone at the top The messages and actions of senior management in relation to Fraud detection and deterrence. Tonnage Maritime law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Toleration. If you have a better definition for Toleration than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Toleration may be disputed by other professionals. Our attempt is to provide easy definitions on Toleration and any other medical topic for the public at large.
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