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Court
AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19] Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original … being courts of inferior dignity, and in a less propesense the King's Courts--and these are not entrusted by law with any power to fine or imprison the subjects of the realm, unless by the express provision of
Jus
designated the pr'ses, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. All law jus) is distributed into two parts--Jus Gentium and Jus Civile--and the whole body of law peculiar to any state is its Jus Civile (Cic. De Orat. I. 44).
Code
order of the Emperor Justinian is distinguished by the appellation of 'The Code' by way of eminence. See CIVIL LAW. The Code Napoleon, or Civil Code of France, pro-ceeding from the French Revolution, and the administration of Napoleon
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Trial
SC 3701. Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 … Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial examination of issues between the
liability
act several liability : liability assumed or imposed on an individual separate from others solidary liability in the civil law of Louisiana : liability that is shared by obligors and that makes any one obligor liable for the
Judgment
It means the statement given by the Judge on the grounds of a decree or order. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (9)] That by the word 'judgment' is meant an order in a trial terminating … Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is
Civil proceeding
Matched in: Term Civil proceeding
Arrest
a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of … in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act,
prescription
title by ] see also easement by prescription at easement compare adverse possession at possession 2 in the civil law of Louisiana a : the running of a period of time set by law after which a right
mortgage
personal or movable property (as an airplane) compare pledge security interest 2 at interest collateral mortgage in the civil law of Louisiana : a mortgage against movable or immovable property that is given to secure a written obligation … note construction mortgage : a mortgage that secures a loan which finances construction conventional mortgage 1 in the civil law of Louisiana : a mortgage that is created by a written contract 2 : a mortgage that is
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