Search Legal Terms and Definitions. overrule. v. 1) to reject an attorney's objection to a question to a witness or admission of evidence. By overruling the objection, the trial judge allows the question or evidence in court. If the judge agrees with the objection, he/she sustains the objection and does not allow the question or evidence.
In general, gross misconduct in the workplace is characterized as an objectionable action that is willful and cannot be described as a mistake or an act of negligence.
Proceeding from a conscious motion of the will; intending the result which actually conies to pass; designed; intentional; malicious.A willful differs essentially from a negligent act.The one is positive and the other negative.t. 317. In common parlance, âwillfulâ is used in the sense of â intentional ,â as distinguished from âaccidentalâ or â involuntary .â But language of a statute affixing a punishment to acts done willfully may be restricted to such acts done with an unlawful intent. U.S. v. Boyd (C.