Arbitrary

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..... on prejudice or preference rather than on reason or fact. This type of decision is often termed arbitrary and capricious. To the same effect is the meaning given to the expression "arbitrary" by Corpus Juris Secundum which explains the term in the following words: Arbitrary.--Based alone upon one's will, and not upon any course of reasoning and exercise of judgment; bound by no la .....

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..... aith, and has been compared with 'willful'. East Coast Railway and Anr. v. Mahadev Appa Roa and Ors.- 2010 (7) TMI 967 - SUPREME COURT There is no precise statutory or other definition of the term "arbitrary". In Kumari Shrilekha Vidyarthi and Ors. v. State of U.P. and Ors.- 1990 (9) TMI 323 - SUPREME COURT, this Court explained that the true import of the expression "arbitrariness" is .....

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