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Answers to questions, means the answers may be either oral or written, in the House of Commons, if a member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk or if he is not present to ask it etc. the Minister concerned causes an answer to be printed in the official Report; in the event of a discrepancy between the texts of the answers sent to the member and the official Report, the text sent to the member is considered the authentic reply. Parlia-mentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 292, 345.An oral answer is confined to the points contained in the question with such explanation only as would make the answer intelligible; however, a certain latitude is permitted to the Ministers of the Crown by permitting them to read out material and quotations from speeches at question time. Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 293....
answer
answer 1 : the defendant's written response to the plaintiff's complaint in a civil suit in which he or she may deny any of plaintiff's allegations, offer any defenses, and make any counterclaims against the plaintiff, cross-claims against other defendants, or third-party claims against third parties otherwise not involved in the lawsuit 2 : a written response to a counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim : reply see also responsive pleading at pleading NOTE: In federal cases, answers are governed by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Under Rule 12, certain defenses (as lack of jurisdiction) may be made by motion rather than included in the answer. vi 1 : to serve or file an answer 2 : to make oneself responsible or accountable (as for the debt of another) vt 1 : to reply to in an answer [ the complaint] 2 : to make a defense against (as a charge or accusation) an·swer·able adj ...
Question-and-answer
Question-and-answer, means the portion of a deposition or trial transcript in which evidence is developed through a series of questions asked by the lawyer and answered by the witness, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1260....
Supplemental answer
Supplemental answer, one which was filed in Chancery for the purpose of correcting, adding to, and explaining an answer already filed, Sm. Ch. Pr. 334...
Voluntary answer
Voluntary answer, one filed by a defendant in-equity, without being called upon to answer by the plaintiff....
Answer
Answer [fr. andswarian, A.-S.; andswer, Goth.; antwoord, Belg.], reply, counter-speech....
Insufficiency
Insufficiency, an answer in Chancery was said to be insufficient when it did not specially reply to the specific charges in the bill.If a plaintiff conceived an answer to be insufficient, he might take exception to it in writing, stating the parts of the bill which he alleged were not answered, and praying that the defendant mightin such respect file a further and full answer tothe bill. Scandal and impertinence in an answer must have been disposed of before its sufficiency could be considered. See INTERROGATORIES; and Dan.Ch. Pr....
Leading question
Leading question, a question which suggests to a witness the answer which the party examining desires. Any question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive is called a leading question (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 141). See Best on Evidence; Powell on Evidence. Such questions are not allowed to be put except in cross-examination, except as to matter not in dispute, and preliminary inquires, name and address, etc., of witnesses.It is not easy to lay down any precise general rule as to what are leading questions; on the one hand, it is clear that the mind of the witness must be brought into contact with the subject of inquiry; on the other, that he ought not to be prompted to give a particular answer, or to be asked any question to which yes or no would be conclusive. But how far it may be necessary to particularise, in framing the question, must depend upon the circumstances of each particular case.If a witness by his conduct show himself decided...
Plea
That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause in a stricter sense an allegation of fact in a cause as distinguished from a demurrer in a still more limited sense and in modern practice the defendants answer to the plaintiffs declaration and demand That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendants plea In chancery practice a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed delayed or barred In criminal practice the plea is the defendants formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him...
Petition of Right
Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign.In the first Parliament of Charles I., which met in 1626, the Commons refused to grant supplies until certain rights and privileges of the subject, which they alleged had been violated, should have been solemnly recognised by a legislative enactment. With this view they framed a petition to the king, in which, after reciting various statutes by which their rights and privileges were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or suchlike charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; that none be called upon to make answer so to do; that freemen be imprisoned or detained only by the law of the land, or by due process of law, and not by the king's special command, without any charge; that persons be not compelled to receive soldiers and mariners into their houses agai...
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