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Roll

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Roll, a schedule of parchment that may be turned up with the hand in the form of a pipe, Staundf. P.C. 11. A list, as a burgess roll, a freeman's roll under the Municipal Corporations Act. All pleadings, memorials, and acts of Court are entered on rolls, and filed with the proper officers, and then they become records of the Court.

Means a roll of advocates prepared and maintained under this Act. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961) s. 2(1)(b)]

1. A record of a court's or public office's proceedings 2. An official list of persons and property subject to taxation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1329

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