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Heard, The word 'heard' means that cases which have already been instituted or filed at Lucknow may in the discretion of the Chief Justice under the second proviso to paragraph 14 of the U.P. High Court (Amalgamation) Order, 1948 be directed to be heard at Allahabad, Nasiruddin v. State Transport Appellate Tribunal, AIR 1976 SC 331: (1975) 2 SCC 671: (1976) 1 SCR 505 [U.P. High Courts (Amalgamation) Order, 1948 (Para 7, 14)]...
Disciplinary matters affecting a person
Disciplinary matters affecting a person, the phrase 'all disciplinary matters, affecting a person' is sufficiently comprehensive to include any kind of disciplinary action proposed to be taken in respect of a particular person, Hon'ble Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Hon'ble Chief Justice of Calcutta, AIR 1956 SC 285 (292). [Constitution of India, Art. 320(3)(c)]...
Dewan, Duam
Dewan, Duam, place of assembly; Native Minister of the Revenue Department; and Chief Justice in Civil causes, within his jurisdiction; receiver-general of a province. This term is also used to designate the principal revenue servant under a European collector and even of a Zemindar. By this title the East India Company were receivers-general of the revenues of Bengal under a grant from the Great Mogul, Indian....
Crown Office
Crown Office, a department originally belonging to the Court of King's Bench. The Act (6 & 7 Vict. c. 20) abolished the clerks in this Court and themonopoly of their practice, throwing it opento all persons admitted or admissible to practise as attorneys of the then Court of Queen's Bench; it also abolished several ancient offices and many burthen some fees,and made the office subject to the direct control of the Lord Chief Justice. Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 104 et seq. Replaces the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 78), which amalgamated the Crown Office with the Cntral Office of the Supreme Court, and transferred to such Central Office the' King's Coroner and Attorney' and the 'Masterof the Crown Office.'. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord.LXI., and Short and Mellor's Crown Office Practice....
Common Pleas, the Court of
Common Pleas, the Court of, so called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject, one of the three Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, presided over by a lord chief justice and five (formerly four) puisne, judges. It was detached from the King's Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I., and the 14th clause of Magna Charta enacted that it should not follow the King's Court, but be held in some certain place. Its jurisdiction was altogether confined to civil matters, having no cognizance in criminal cases, and was concurrent with that of the King' Bench and Exchequer in personal actions and ejectment. It had a peculiar or exclusive jurisdiction in the following cases:-(I.) Formal or plenary.(1) Real actions, under the C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26.(2) Under the (English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), over petitions complaining of an undue return or undue election of a member of Parliament.(II....
Commissioners, Perpetual
Commissioners, Perpetual, for taking acknowledge-ments of married women under the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74), and the (English) Married Women's Reversionary Interests Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 5), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Fines and Recoveries.' See s. 81 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, proper persons were appointed such Commissioners by the Lord Chief Justice of England from time to time. The (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167, has abolished the statutory requirements for acknowledgments by married women as respects settlements executed after 1925....
Civil service of the State
Civil service of the State, the phrase 'civil service of the State' can be stretched to include the 'officers and servants of the High Court' as well as members of the Subordinate Judiciary, Chief Justice of Andra Pradesh v. L.V.A Dikshutulu, AIR 1979 SC 193 (205). [Constitution of India, Art. 371D, clause (3)]...
By-laws, or bye-laws
By-laws, or bye-laws [fr. bilagines, from by, Sax., pagus, civitas, and lagen, lex, Spelm.], the laws, regulations, and constitutions of corporations, for the government of their members. See per Lord Russell, C.J., in Kruse v. Johnson, (1898) 2 QB 91. They are binding, unless contrary to law, or unreasonable, and against the common benefit, and then they are void.No trading company is allowed to make by-laws which may affect the crown, or the common profit of the people under penalty of 40l., unless they be approved by the chancellor, treasurer, and chief justices, or the judges of assize, 19 Hen. 7, c. 7.County Councils and Borough Councils under Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51) (English) s. 249; may make by-laws for the good rule and government of the whole or any part of the county or borough, as the case may be, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances; Provided that by-laws made under this section by a County Council shall not have effect in any borou...
Australia, Commonwealth of.
Australia, Commonwealth of. The association of the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, and Western Australia in a federal Commonwealth comprising also Papua, the Northern Territory, and Norfolk, Ashmore and Cantier Island in the Pacific (and see MANDATED TERRITORIES), with a Constitution enabling its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to legislate for the whole of Australia. The legislative powers of the Parliament, which may be found under 39 heads in the 51st paragraph of the Constitution, extend to trade, taxation, defence, coinage, bankruptcy, copyright, marriage, 'the people of any race other than certain aborigines,' immigrants and emigration, 'external affairs,' railway construction, and other matters too numerous to particularize; see Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (Imperial, 63 & 64 Vict. c. 12); A.-G. for Commonwealth of Australia v. Colonial Sugar R...
All disciplinary matters, affecting a person
All disciplinary matters, affecting a person, the phrase 'all disciplinary matters, affecting a person' is sufficiently comprehensive to include any kind of disciplinary action proposed to be taken in respect of a particular persons, Pradyat Kumar Bose v. Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, AIR 1956 SC 285 (292): (1955) 2 SCR 331. [Constitution of India, Art. 320 (3)(c)]...
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