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Mixed Arbitral Tribunal

Mixed Arbitral Tribunal. Tribunals which may be established under treaties of peace with various countries, e.g., Versailles (Germany), see S.R.& O., 1920 (No. 264); Austria, S.R. & O., 1920 (No. 1347); Hungary, S.R. & O., 1921 (No. 1285). A tribunal sat in London to adjudicate on certain losses and debts in respect of which claims were made under the Treaty of Versailles on the governments of ex-enemy countries....

Arbitral Tribunal

Arbitral Tribunal, means a sole arbitrator or a panel of arbitrators. [Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (26 of 1996), s. 2(1)(d)]...

Court

Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...

Tribunal

Tribunal, includes, within its ambit, all adjudicating bodies, provided they are constituted by the State and are invested with judicial, as distinguished from purely administrative or executive functions, Durga Shankar Mehta v. Thakur Raghuraj Singh, AIR 1954 SC 520: 1954 SCJ 723: (1954) 2 Mad LJ 385.Tribunal, labour court is not a tribunal, State of Assam v. Harizon Union, AIR 1967 SC 442: (1967) 30 FJR 354.Means a court or other adjudicating body, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1512.Means the Maharashtra Sales Tax Tribunal constituted under s. 11. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(31)]Means the Registrar or, as the case may be, the Appellate Board, before which the proceeding concerned is pending. [Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2(1)(ze)]1. A court or other adjudicatory body 2. The seat, bench or place where a judge set, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The seat of a judge; a Court of justice.As defined by s. 2(r) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, as amen...

Panel

Panel [fr. panellum, Lat.; panneau, Fr., a square or panel]. 1. A little part, or rather a schedule or page, containing the names of such jurors as the sheriff returns to pass upon a trial; and empannelling a jury is nothing but the entering them into the sheriff's roll or book, Jac. Law Dict.; Co. Litt. 158 b.2. In Scots law, the accused person in a criminal trial after appearance in court.3. Panel of Arbitrators, the name given to the permanent Court or Tribunal established under the Hague Arbitration Convention.The term is often applied to the list of such medical practitioners as have agreed to administer the Medical Benefit under the National Health Insur-ance Acts. Those entitled to be treated by such a medical practitioner are popularly called 'panel-patients,' and the word is used to denote a list of any authoritative persons or consultants where determination or advise is required by statute, e.g., arbitrators under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation...

Hague Tribunal

The permanent court of arbitration created by the ldquoInternational Convention for the Pacific Settle of International Disputesrdquo adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899 It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law nominated by the signatory powers From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court On the failure of the parties to agree directly on the arbitrators each chooses two arbitrators an umpire is selected by them by a third power or by two powers selected by the parties...

Award

Award [the primitive sense of ward is shown in the It. Guardare, Fr. regarder, to look. Hence, Prov. Fr. eswarder (answering in form to award), to inspect goods, and, incidentally, to pronounce them good and marketable; eswardenur, an inspector, Hecart. An award is accordingly, in the first place, the taking a matter into consideration and pronouncing judgment upon it; but in later times the designation has been transferred exclusively to the consequent judgment, Wedgw.], a document containing the determination of commissioners, under an Inclosure Act or other public statute; also an instrument embodying an arbitrator's decision on a matter submitted to him. It must follow the submission, but need not necessarily be in writing, unless so prescribed. An award is generally considered as published as soon as the arbitrator has done some act where by he becomes functus officio, and has declared, and can no longer change, his final mind. As soon as the award is executed, notice thereof shou...

Arbitration

Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them.Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 100.Means any arbitration whether or not administered by permanent arbitral institution. [The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(a)]An arbitrator is a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred, Termes de la Ley.The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator, though both found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference in that manner which appears most just and equitable.An ar...

County Courts

County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ of false judgment. Outlawries ofabsconding offenders were here proclaimed.Far more important inferior tribunals have now been established throughout England. They were first established in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, 'the Act for the more easy recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England,' repealed and re-enacted with fourteen amending Acts by the consolidating and amending (English) County Courts Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 43), an Act very materially but very shortly amended by the (English) County Courts Act, 1903 (3 Dew. 7, c. 42), which came into operation on the 1st January, 1905, and raised the common law jurisdiction from 50l. (to which amount it had been raised by an Act of 1850 from the original 20l. under the Act of 1846) to 100l. The number of jurors was also raise...

Judicial power

Judicial power, 'judicial power' may be defined as the power to examine questions submitted for determination with a view to the pronouncement of an authoritative decision as to rights and liabilities of one or more parties, Firm of Mohd. Ali and Sons v. V. Madhavarao, AIR 1964 AP 132 (135). (Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 24)The legislatures in India cannot exercise a power which can be described as essentially judicial and not legislative. There has been a lacuna in creating jurisdiction, supplies it, it acts within the legislative field. Where, however, the legislature goes further than this & compels the determination of a case at the hands of a court taking it completely out of reach of the court to make a contrary decision, the matter is one under judicial and not legislative power, Biharilal v. Ramcharan, AIR 1957 MP 165.Means the judicial power which every authority i.e., courts i.e., High Court and subordinate judiciary, established under Chapters V and VI of Part VI and th...

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