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Appellate Jurisdiction Acts, 1876, 1887, 1913 and 1929

Geo. 5, c. 8). These Acts modernize the procedure of the House of Lords as a Court of Appeal. An appeal lies to the House of Lords from any judgment or order of the Court of Appeal

Dismissed

of Orissa, (1971) 1 SCC 583: AIR 1971 SC 2242: (1971) 3 SCR 646. Power to dismiss an appeal in limine is a power which must be exercised sparingly and with great circumspection. One would think a

a jury, for indictable offences not excepted by the Act of 1842 as below, and (2) to hear appeals from petty or special sessions. Times of Quarter Sessions.--The time of Quarter Sessions in now fixed by the

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Supreme Court of Judicature

of His Majesty's High Court of Justice (referred to as the High Court), and His Majesty's Court of Appeal (referred to as the Court of Appeal). Formerly, by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature Act, 1873, ss.

Notes, Judge's

voce evidence given during the trial of an action, and these are in practice always referred to on appeal, although they cannot be obtained as a matter of right. In criminal trials the judge must, it seems,

Crown cases reserved

so. The jurisdiction given by the Act of 1848 (English) is now transferred to the Court of Criminal Appeal byvirtue of s. 20 of the Criminal Appeal Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), which s. also preserves

Judgment

High Court is not a 'judgment' within the meaning of cl. 15 of the Letters Patent and no appeal lies therefrom under the Letters Patent, as it neither affects the merits of the controversy between the parties

Enrollment

desirous of preventing a rehearing of the cause before the judge pronouncing the same, or of preventing an appeal to the Lord Chancellor or Lords Justices of Appeal, it must have been enrolled. So also where a

bond

bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over which the person may have no control. appeal bond : a cost bond required by a rule of procedure (as Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 7)

error

a party must object to an error at trial in order to raise it as an issue on appeal. clear error : an error made by a judge in his or her findings of fact which is

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