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Circuits
in Council of 2nd August, 1910 (amending an order of June 28, 1909), continuous sittings are established for civil business at Manchester and Liverpool, a judge of the K.B.D. being assigned for the purpose. Consequently one circuit
Charities, or Public Trusts
But this restraint was gradually relaxed; and in the time of Justinian it became a fixed maxim of civil law that legacies to pious uses (which included all legacies destined to works of charity, whether they related
Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
jurisdiction (in exclusion of the King Courts) when a scholar or privileged person is the defendant, over all civil actions and suits whatsoever, excepting where a right of freehold is concerned, and of all injuries and trespasses
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Challenge
Challenge [fr. Challenger, O. F., to accuse of], an exception taken either against things or jurors. In civil actions, when a full jury appear, either party may challenge them for cause, as well the talesmen as
Heard and finally decided
Heard and finally decided, the proceeding either civil or criminal shall be deemed to continue to be pending until it is heard and finally decided, that
Cause
a plaintiff and defendant. Generally speaking, discovery is granted there in all proceedings except purely criminal proceedings, and civil proceedings where the action is brought merely to establish a forfeiture or enforce a penalty, M.L. Sethi v.
Borough Courts
suits, and receive justice at home. In boroughs subject to the Municipal Corporations Acts they are termed 'borough civil courts' and regulated by ss. 175-188 of the (English) Municipal Corporations Act,1882, but they are very few in
Battery
Battery [batterie, Fr., fr battre, to beat], beating and wounding. This, in law, includes every touching or laying hold, however trifling, of another's person or clothes, in an angry, revengeful, rude, insolent, or hostile manner. It...
Hague conference
1907. Consult Higgins, Hague Conference. Means the convention on the service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (The Hague, 15th November, 1965; (1969); Cmnd. 3986): RSC Ord. 11, r. 5(8). The convention
May
State of Bihar, 1961 SC 849; Narayana Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh, 1957 SC 737. [See also Civil Procedure Code, 1908, s. 39] The word 'may' in Article 226 of the Constitution has reference to sanction
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