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Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem

Adjudication contra h'reditatem jacentem. When a debtor's heir apparent renounces the succession, any creditor may obtain a decree cognitionis

Adjudicating authority

Adjudicating authority, means an officer appointed by the Central Government under sub-s. (1) of s. 16 of the Act.

adjudicative fact

adjudicative fact see fact

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Administrative adjudication

Administrative adjudication, is the process by an administrative agency to issue regulations through an adversary proceeding, Black Law Dictionary, 7th

jurisdiction

Co. v. Washington in the Important Cases section compare venue NOTE: Jurisdiction determines which court system should properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary

Decree

of a Court disposing of a case (accent on first syllable). Decree means a formal expression of an adjudication which the Court conclusively and finally determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any

Entertain

Meaning 'institute' , Martin & Harris Ltd. v. VIth Additional Distt. Judge, (1998) 1 SCC 732. Means 'to adjudicate upon' or 'to proceed to consider on merits' and did not means initiation of proceed-ing, Hindusthan Commercial Bank,

Rem, Judgment in

concluding all persons (not merely the parties to the proceedings) from saying that the status of the thing adjudicated upon was not such as declared by the adjudication, Rex. v. Hartington, 4 E&B 780; and see Castrique

Res judicata

is said that a previous decision is res judicata, it is meant that the right claimed has been adjudicated upon and cannot again be placed in contest between the same parties. A previous decision of a competent

Novum judicium non datnovum jus, sed declarat antiquum; quia judicium est juris dictum et per judicium jus est noviter revelatum quod diu fuit velatum

juris dictum et per judicium jus est noviter revelatum quod diu fuit velatum. 10 Co. 42, (A new adjudication does not make a new law, but declares the old; because adjudication is the utterance of the law,

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