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State roll, means a roll of advocates prepared and maintained by a State Bar Council under s. 17. [Advocates Act, 1961 (25 of 1961), s. 2(1)(n)]...
Persons entitled to practise
Persons entitled to practise, the words 'persons entitled to practise' would include determining or prescribing the qualifications and conditions that a person should possess and satisfy before becoming entitled to practise as an advocate before the Supreme Court or the High Courts, Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1973 SC 231 (237): (1973) 1 SCC 261. [Constitution of India, Schedule VII, List I, Entries 77 and 78]...
Professional misconduct
Professional misconduct, may consist in betraying the confidence of a client, in attempting by any means to practise a fraud or impose on or deceive the court or the adverse party or his counsel, and in fact in any conduct which tends to bring reproach on the legal profession or to alienate the favourable opinion which the public should entertain concerning it, Corpus Juris Secundum (p. 740, Vol. 7), see also R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma, (2000) 7 SCC 264.Means dishonesty or some conduct involving moral turpitude, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Kashi Prasad, AIR 1969 All 363.The test to be applied in all such cases is whether the proved misconduct of the advocate is such that he must be regarded as unworthy to remain a member of the honourable profession to which he has been admitted and unfit to be entrusted with the responsible duties that an advocate is called upon to perform. There is a world of difference between the giving of improper legal advice and the giving of wrong legal ...
Etiquette of the profession
Etiquette of the profession. See BAR COUNCIL....
Advocate General
Advocate General, defined. [Indian Bar Councils Act, (38 of 1926), s. 2(b)--referred in Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971), s. 15.Means the principal law officer of a State: appointed by the Governor to give advice to the Government of the State upon such legal matters, and to perform such other duties of a legal character as may be referred or assigned to him by the Governor. [Constitution of India, Article 165(1) & (2)]...
Receipt
Receipt, an acknowledgment in writing of having received a sum of money, which is prima facie but not conclusive evidence of payment, Skaife v. Jackson, (1824) 3 B&C 421.The act of receiving something; a written acknow-ledgment that something has been received, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.A stamp duty first imposed in 1783 was progressively ad valorem, until 1853, when the uniform 1d. rate was imposed; this was increased to 2d. by the Finance Act, 1920.For the purposes of the Stamp Act, 1891, the expression 'receipt' is defined (s. 101) as including--(1) Any note, memorandum, or writing whereby any money amounting to two pounds or upwards, or any bill of exchange or promissory note for money amounting to two pounds or upwards, is acknow-ledged or expressed to have been received or deposited or paid, or whereby any debt or demand, or any part of a debt or demand, of the amount of two pounds or upwards, is acknowledged to have been settled, satisfied, or discharged, or which signifie...
Council of Legal Education
Council of Legal Education, a body consisting of twenty benchers, five nominated by each of the four Inns of Court, to whom is entrusted the business of superintending the education and examination of students inorder to their being called to the Bar. The members remain in office for two years, and each Inn has power to fill up any vacancy that may occur in the number of its nominees during tha tperiod. See the 'Consolidated Regulations' of the Inns of Court....
Advocates, Faculty of
Advocates, Faculty of, the bar of Scotland. The Faculty was instituted along with the College of Justice in 1532. Members are entitled to plead in every Court in Scotland, and also before the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and Parliamentary committees. In the Supreme Courts in Scotland they have an exclusive right of audience except (1) where a party conducts his own case, and (2) in cases falling under s. 3 of the Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act, 1933. The head of the Faculty is Dean of Faculty, who is elected annually. He takes precedence of all other members of the Bar except the Lord Advocate; these two and the Solicitor-General for Scotland in Court sit within the Bar. Before 1897 only the Law Officers and Deans of Faculty were appointed King's counsel, but since that year it has been the practice confer this honour on distinguished Counsel recommended by the Lord Justice-General. They do not sit within the Bar. The Library of the Faculty was...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, originally two persons having held high judicial office, or practised at the bar for not less than fifteen years, appointed, with a salary of 6,000l. a year, to aid the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the hearing of appeals (App. Jur. Act, 1876, s. 6). On the death or resignation of any two members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Crown was empowered to appoint a third and fourth Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (ibid., s. 14), and may now appoint two more in addition to the four (App. Jur. Act, 1913, s. 1), and a further one in addition to the six (App. Jur. Act, 1929, s. 2). Any Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who at the date of his appointment would have been qualified to the appointed an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal, or at that date was a judge of that Court, is an ex-officio judge of the Court of Appeal (Jud. Act, 1925, s. 6 (2)). Lords of Appeal in Ordinary rank as barons for life and sit and vote in t...
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