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Manner

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Manner, in Black's Law Dictionary, the word 'Manner' has been defined to mean that 'a way, mode, method of doing anything, or mode of proceeding in any case or situation'. As per the Webster's International Dictionary, 'Manner' means 'method or mode or style'. In the Stroud's Dictionary it is stated that the words 'manner and form' refer only 'to the mode in which thing is to be done or time for doing it', Dr. Jachani Rashtreeya Seva Peetha Basavanagudi v. State of Karnataka, AIR 2000 Kant 91.

Manner means method of procedure and to provide for an appeal is to provide for a mode of procedure, Asnew Drums Private Ltd. v. Maharashtra State Finance Corporation, AIR 1972 SC 801: (1971) 3 SCC 602: (1972) 1 SCR 351. [State Financial Corporation Act, 1951, s. 32 (8)]

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