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derivative status

derivative status Getting a status (visa) through another applicant, as provided under immigration law for certain visa categories. For example, the spouse and children of an exchange

conflict of laws

conflict of laws :opposition or conflict between the applicable laws of different states or jurisdictions regarding the rights of the parties in a case ;also : a

appointment package

appointment package The letter and documents that tell an applicant of the date of the immigrant visa interview. It includes forms that the applicant must complete before the

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accompanying

accompanying A type of visa in which family members travel with the principal applicant, (in immigrant visa cases, within six months of issuance of an immigrant visa to the principal applicant). Source:

Custom and usage

and not unreasonable or opposed to public policy; and Provided further that in the case of a rule applicable only to a family it has not been discontinued by the family. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of

Appropriate government

Constitution', the words and figures 'List I or List III in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution as applicable to the State of Jammu and Kashmir' shall be substituted. (b) in sub-clause (ii) thereof, for the words

Reason to believe

Ltd. v. Company Law Board, AIR 1967 SC 295. Reason to believe, shows that the belief that the applicant may be so arrested must be founded on reasonable grounds. Mere 'fear' is not 'belief' for which reason

Default summons

two kinds: (i.) Ordinary Default Summonses; and (ii.) Special Default Summonses. (i.) an Ordinary Default Summons is only applicable to liquidated demands between 2l. and 10l., and is not available against a working-class defendant, except in the

Res judicata

thing adjudicated; a case decided; a matter settled, Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 31. The application of the doctrine of res judicata to the petitions filed under Art. 32 does not in any way

Desertion

of modes of life involved, the Court has discouraged attempts at defining desertion, there being no general principle applicable to all cases. Desertion is not the withdrawal from a place but from a state of things, for

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