{"id":358660,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/arbitrary.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"arbitrary","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/arbitrary.html","title":{"rendered":"Arbitrary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">adj<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by standards, rules, or law &#91;the manner of punishment is &#93; <br \/>  <b>2 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> not restrained or limited in the exercise of power &#91;an government&#93; <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> marked by or resulting from the unrestrained exercise of power &#91;protection from arrest and detention&#93; <br \/>  <b>3 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> based on preference, bias, prejudice, or convenience rather than on reason or fact &#91;an standard&#93; &#91;different provisions for the married and the unmarried were irrational and &#8220;K. A. Cohen&#8221;&#93; <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as an unreasonable act of individual will without regard for facts or applicable law often used in the phrase <i>arbitrary and capricious<\/i> &#91;an agency finding or conclusion of lack of evidence would be and capricious if the record afforded no substantial basis for such a finding &#8220;<i>Irvin v. Hobby<\/i>, 131 F. Supp. 851 (1955)&#8221;&#93; <i>NOTE: Under section 706 of the Administrative Procedure Act, a court shall set aside an agency&#8217;s action, findings, or conclusions determined upon review to be arbitrary. <\/i> <br \/>  <b><i>  ar&#183;bi&#183;trar&#183;i&#183;ly   &#91;&#196; r-b&#601;-trer-&#601;-l&#275;&#93;<br \/>  <i>adv<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/>  <b><i>  ar&#183;bi&#183;trar&#183;i&#183;ness   &#91;&#196; r-b&#601;-trer-&#275;-n&#601;s&#93;<br \/>  <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Arbitrary&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-358660","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=358660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}