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Under, means either 'pursuant to' or 'for the purposes and in accordance with the terms of' an agreement, Feetum v. Levy, (Ch D), (2005) 1 WLR 2576.Under, the office of the Governor is an independent constitutional office which is not under the Government of India. The phrase 'a person serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State' seems to have reference to such persons in respect of whom the administrative control is vested in the respective executive Governments functioning in the name of the President or of the Governor or of a Rajpramukh. The officers and staff of the High Court cannot be said to fall within the scope of the above phrase because in respect of them the administrative control is clearly vested in the Chief Justice, Hargovind Pant v. Dr. Raghukul Tilak, (1979) 3 SCC 458: AIR 1979 SC 1109 (1113)....
Tested
Tested, to bear the teste. A writ is issued in the name of the sovereign, and the Lord Chancellor is supposed to witness it. All writs are, by R.S.C. 1883, Ord. II., r. 8, tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor. They were before the Judicature Acts tested in the name of the Lord Chancellor if issuing from the Court of Chancery, or of the Lord Chief Justice if issuing from the Queen's Bench, etc....
Sewer
Sewer, a trench or channel through which water or sewage flows.The Court of Commissioners of Sewers is a temporary tribunal, erected by commission under the Great Seal, which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8, c. 5). Their jurisdiction is to overlook the repairs of the banks and walls of the sea-coast and navigable rivers; or, with consent of a certain proportion of the owners and occupiers, to make new ones, and to cleanse such rivers, and the streams communicating therewith, and is confined to such county or particular district as the commission shall name. They are a Court of record, and may proceed b jury, or upon their own view, and may make orders for the removal of annoyances, or the conservation of the sewers within their commission according to the customs of Romney Marsh, or otherwise. They may also assess necessary ra...
Scandalising the court
Scandalising the court, is also settled law that if a resolution is passed by Bar Associations expressing want of confidence in judicial officers it would amount to scandalising the court to undermine its authority and thereby the Advocates will have committed contempt of court, Harish Uppal v. Union of India, (2003) 2 SCC 45.Scandalising the court, would mean hostile criticism of judges or judiciary, D.C. Saxenca v. Chief Justice of India, (1996) 5 SCC 216....
S.S., Collar of
S.S., Collar of. Collars bearing these letters, or consisting of many of them linked together, have been much worn by persons holding great offices in the state, e.g., by the Lord Chief Justice of England. The signification is obscure...
Roman Catholics
Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing the sale or purchase of Popish primers; and an Act of William and Mary (11 & 12 Wm. 3, c. 4), punishing any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. Exclusion from Parliament was effected by the requirement of the Declaration against Trans-ubstantiation (see TRANSUBSTANT- IATION) from members of either House by 30 Car. 2, s. 2, and disfranchisement by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19; while 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24, effected (until 1791) exclusion from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requirin...
Officio, Ex
Officio, Ex. by virtue of his office; e.g., the Lord Chief Justice of England is a member of the Court of Appeal, ex officio....
Offices of the Supreme Court
Offices of the Supreme Court. The offices of the Supreme Court are to be open every day except Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, White Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday, and such days as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, shall direct, (English) R.S.C., Ord. LXIII., r. 6 (as amended)As to the vacations in the offices of the Supreme Court, see VACATION....
Mansfield rule
Mansfield rule, the doctrine that a Juror's testimony or affidavit about juror misconduct may not be used to challenge the verdict. This Mansfield rule as intended to ensure that jurors are heard through their verdict, not through their post verdict testimony. In practice the rule lessons the possibility that losing parties will seek to penetrate the secrets of the jury room. The rule of first announced in Vaise v. Delaval, 99 Eng Rep 944 (KB 1785), in an opinion by William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 976....
Laudibus (de) legum angli'
Laudibus (de) legum angli'. Sir John Fortescue, who had been some time chief justice of the King's Bench in the reign of Henry VI., is said to have written this work, while in exile with the Prince of Wales, and others of the Lancastrian party, in France. Sir John was then made chancellor; and in that character he supposes himself holding a conversation with the young prince on the nature and excellence of the laws of England compared with the civil law and the laws of other countries. He considers at length the mode of trying matters of fact by jury, and shows how it excels that by witnesses. He informs us that some of our princes wished to introduce the civil law merely for the sake of governing in the arbitrary way allowed by that law, which declares, quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. He then proceed to examine some other points of difference between the Civil and Common Law, always deciding in favour of our own. He concludes his book with a short account of the societies w...
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