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Copyhold

can inspect and take copies of to use as he may think proper; and the Court of Queen's Bench (now the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice) will order the lord to allow such

Judgment

even amounts to a decree so that an appeal would lie from such a judgment to a Division Bench. (2) A preliminary judgment. - This kind of a judgment may take two forms - (a) where the

Banc (or Banco), sittings in

Banc (or Banco), sittings in [fr. bancus, Lat., a seat or bench of justice. Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench

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Central Criminal Court

Central Criminal Court Act, 1856 (19 & 20 Vict. c. 16) [see (English) Palmer's Act], authorizes the King's Bench Division of the High Court to order any indictment for any felony or misdemeanour supposed to have been

Divisions of the High Court

for the more convenient despatch of business, divided into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being

Held

the U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 means 'lawfully held'. Judicial propriety requires that if a bench of a High Court is unable to agree with the decision already rendered by another co-ordinate bench of

Certiorari

(to be more fully informed of), an original writ issuing out of the Crown side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, addressed, in the king's name, to judges or officers of inferior

Cause of action

to a civil matter means that it should be left to the litigant to institute cases at Lucknow Bench or at Allahabad Bench according to the cause of action arising wholly or in part within either of

Court subordinate

'Court subordinate' and a single Judge of the High Court not being a court subordinate to the Division Bench qua the Division Bench the District Court was the Court immediately below. But the two expressions have not

Trial

WN 929. Means the proceedings which commences when the case is called on with the Magistrate on the bench, the accused in the dock and the representative of the prosecution and defence, if the accused is defended,

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