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High Court

preserve its original record in perpetuity. It is also now well settled that even apart from the aforesaid attribute of a superior Court of record the High Court as such has two fold powers. Being a Court

From the bar

from the class or group of advocates practising in courts of law. It does not have any other attribute, Sushma Suri v. Government of NCT of Delhi, (1999) 1 SCC 330 (337). (Delhi Higher Judical Service Rules,

Financial non-viability

have to be understood in its popular sense, that is to say, the sense or meaning that is attributed to it by men of business, trade or commerce and by persons or institutions interested in or dealing

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Family

follow from the above that the word 'Family' always signifies a group. Plurality of persons is an essential attribute of a family. A single person, male or females does not constitute a family. He or she would

False lights

be mistaken for a lighthouse. See FALSE SIGNAL. In an invasion-of-privacy action a plaintiff's allegation that the defendant attributed to the plaintiff views that he or she does not hold and placed the plaintiff before the public

Judicially

Judicially, merely a standard of conduct and freedom from bias or interest which are the true attributes of a judge. 'Judicial power' may be defined as the power to examine questions submitted for determination with

Chairman

an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Ed., pp. 189-190, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd

Enforce

Enforce, has been attributed a meaning to give force or effect to; to compel obedience to (Black Law Dictionary) see also Hameed

Ejusdem generis

Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 535. This term is chiefly used in cases where general words have a meaning attributed to them less comprehensive than they would otherwise bear, by reason of particular words preceding them: e.g., the

Domicile

that a person may have no home but he cannot be without a domicile and the law may attribute to him a domicile in a country where in reality he has not. A person may be a

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