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Kings Bench

law in England so called because the king used to sit there in person It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne or junior justices During the reign of a queen it was called the Queens Bench

Appeal, Court of (U.K.)

lunacy. The Court (which usually sits in two divisions) consists of (ex officio) the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and five Lords Justices. The Judges may not sit on appeal

Assize, or assise

and determine matrimonial causes of any class prescribed by the Lord Chancellor with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice and the President of the Probate Division. The commissioner has all the powers and duties which are vested

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Desertion

by the United States; is guilty of desertion Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C.A. 885. Virendra Kumar v. Chief of Army Staff, (1986) 2 SCC 217: AIR 1986 SC 1060.

C.J.

C.J. 1 chief justice 2 chief judge

Chief justiceship

Matched in: Term Chief justiceship

Condition of service

an expression of wide import. As pointed by the Supreme Court in Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, (1955) 2 SCR 1331, the dismissal of an official is a matter which falls

Processum continuando

Processum continuando, a writ for the continuance of process after the death of the Chief Justice or other justices in the commission of oyer and terminer, Reg. Brev. 128.

Puisne

the purposes of that Act, a judge of the High Court other than the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, and their successors respectively. Puisne judges of the High Court shall be styled Justices of the

Consultation

or advising. A similar meeting of the solicitor with a junior counsel is called a conference. Consultation with chief justice of High Court not the same as that of 'consultation' contemplated under Article 217 of the Constitution for

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