discretion definition

discretion

General: Latitude or power, but not an obligation, to exercise a right or to do or not do something.

Law: Right of a corporate or public officer (such as a judge) to act according to his or her judgment or conscience in certain circumstances—but within given limits and under the guidance of customary principles.

discretion is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Industries, Manufacturing, & Technology subjects.

discretion appears in the definitions of the following terms: blind trust, bail, master and servant, prudent man rule, quasi judicial, rule, guideline, power, injunction, overdraft and

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