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Contempt of court
LR 8 QB 134), there is an express power to punish by s. 162 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1888), as talking boisterously, applauding any part of the proceedings, refusing to be sworn or to answer
Mandamus
mandamus, grant a rule ordering justices to do any act appertaining to their office, and the (English) County Courts Act, 1888, s. 131 [see now (English) County Courts Act, 1934, s. 114], makes a similar provision as
court of appeals
court of appeals often cap C&A : a court hearing appeals from the decisions of lower courts: as a : an intermediate court of the U.S. federal judicial system b : a state appellate court
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Law of Property Act, 1925 (English)
personal representatives as to the estate of the deceased, whether testate or intestate;(d) mortgagees; (e) an order of Court as provided, may, with certain exceptions set out in sub-s. (3) of s. 2, (English) L.P. Act, 1925,
Precedent
of time, the longer a precedent has remained unquestioned, the more hard it becomes to reverse it. The courts has to adopt a construction of law, which would inevitably result in upsetting titles long founded on the
Sheriff (in Scotland)
as of inquest, terce, division, tutory, etc., and generally to all civil matters not specially committed to other courts. He has also a summary jurisdiction in regard to small debts, as well as a criminal jurisdiction.
Probate
Probate, means the copy of a Will certified under the seal of a court of competent jurisdiction with a grant of administration to the estate of the testator. [Indian Succession Act, 1925
Royal Courts of Justice
Royal Courts of Justice, the statutory name, by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 222, replacing s. 28 of the (English)
warrant
all searches require a search warrant. Warrantless searches are permitted when they are of a kind that the courts have found to be reasonable (as by being limited) or when they are prompted by a level of
Certiorari
Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them, to the end
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