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Advocate

conduct of a suit or action. The term is at the present day confined to persons professionally conducting cases in Court, i.e., Barristers and Solicitors (q.v.). In the English Ecclesiastical and Admiralty Courts, until 1857, certain persons

Advisory board

means a Central or a State advisory board or a district and city level advisory board, as the case may be, constituted under s. 62. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000),

Advice on evidence

the papers before counsel for this to be done as soon as the pleadings are closed and the case entered for trial.

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Adversary system

as the Anglo-American Legal System, involving active and unhindered parties contesting with each other to put forth a case before an independent decision-maker, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 53.

Adultery

incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.

Admonition

Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal; Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May,

Administrative Tribunal

Administrative Tribunal, in relation to a State, means the Administrative Tribunal for the State or, as the case may be, the Joint Administrative Tribunal for that State and any other State or States. [Administrative Tribunals Act,

Administrative law

Hotel, London, (No. 2), 1965 Ch D 1210 at p. 1261: (1964) 3 All ER 354; Re Racal case of Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147: (1969) 1 All ER 208 (HL); Breen

Admeasurement, writ of

Admeasurement, writ of. It lay against persons who usurped more than their share, in the two following cases; admeasurement of dower, where the widow held from the heir more land, etc., as dower than rightly belonged

Actual cost

include all expenditure necessary to bring such assets into existence and to put them in working condition. In case money is borrowed by a newly started company which is in the process of constructing and erecting its

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