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Co-respondent

Co-respondent, the man charged with adultery. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 177,enacts that on a petition for divorce presented by the husband or in the answer of a husband praying for divorce, the petitioner or respondent, as the case may be, shall make the alleged adulterer a co-respondent unless he is excused by the Court on special grounds from so doing. On a petition for divorce presented by the wife the Court may, if it thinks fit, direct that the person with whom the husband is alleged to have committed adultery be made a respondent.By s. 189, the husband may claim damages from any person on the ground of adultery with the wife; and the claim for damages shall, subject to the provisions of any enactment, relating to trial by jury in the court, be tried on the same principles and manner as actions for criminal conversation were tried before the commencement of the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (partly repealed), and the provision of that Act with reference to th...


Pro forma defendant

A pro forma defendant is a defendant named as a matter of formality, who typically has no direct responsibility for the harm alleged, but shares an interest with other defendants, such as being a co-owner of property or successor in interest. For example, a co-owner named on a deed or an heir who inherits property may be named as a pro forma defendant...


Ad questiones facti non respondent judices; ad questiones legis non respondent juratores

Ad questiones facti non respondent judices; ad questiones legis non respondent juratores. Co. Litt. 295.-(Judges do not answer questions of fact; juris do not answer questions of law). See Broom's Leg. Max. Since the Common Law Procedure Act, 1854, and now by R. S. C. Ord. XXXVI., a judge in a civil action may answer questions of fact without a jury....


co-conspirator

co-conspirator : a fellow conspirator NOTE: Under Federal law, a statement made by a co-conspirator during and to further the conspiracy is admissible as evidence, but there must be other evidence establishing both the conspiracy and the defendant's participation. ...


Co respondent

One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another...


Adultery

Adultery [ad. Lat., and alter, another person], anciently termed Advowtry (quasi ad alterius thorum). The sin of incontinence between two married persons, or it may be where only one of them is married, in which case it may be called single adultery to distinguish it from the other, which has sometimes been called double.By the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, which created a Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (superseding the Ecclesiastical Court) which would grant to the innocent party a divorce a mensa et thoro on the ground of the other's adultery, a husband could obtain a dissolution of his marriage (before that Act, only obtainable and not infrequently obtained by a private Act of Parliament) upon the ground of his wife's adultery, and a wife could obtain a judicial separation on the ground of her husband's adultery, or a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion or bigamy, or of his incestuous adultery, provided there be...


Co-operative society

Co-operative society, means a co-operative society registered under the Co-operative Societies act, 1912, or under any other law for the time being in force in any State for the registration ofco-operative societies. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957(27 of 1957), s. 2 (ha)]Means a society registered or deemed to be registered under any law relating to co-operative societies for the time being in force in any State. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002), s. 3 (h)]Means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Co-operative Societies Act, 1912, or any other law for the time being in force in any State relating to co-operating societies. [Payment of Bonus Act, 1965 (21 of 1965), s. 2 (10)]The expression 'co-operative society' in cl. 2 of the scheme meant only a consumers co-operative society and no other, Sarkari Sasta Anaj Vikreta Sangh v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1981) 4 SCC 471: AIR 1981 SC 2030 (2035). [Madhya Pradesh Foodstuffs Civil Supply Distribution Sche...


Defendant

Defendant [Deft. Abbrev.], the person sued in an action, or indicted for a misdemeanour.It includes--(i) any person from or through whom a defendant derives his liability to be sued.(ii)any person whose estate is represented by the defendant as executor, administrator or other representative. [Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (e)]...


Respondent

Respondent, a party answering in a suit, whether for himself or another; the defendant in an appeal; the defendant in a suit in the Court for Divorce.It includes an intervener. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, s. 2 (1) (o)]It means the person who answers any memorandum of appeal. [Consumer Protection Rules, 1987, s. 2 (h)]Means any adult male person who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under this Act:Provided that an aggrieved wife or female living in a relationship in the nature of a marriage may also file a complaint against a relative of the husband or the male partner. [Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, s. 2(q)]...


Co-operative year

Co-operative year, A co-operative year means the year commencing the first day of July and ending on June 30, of next following, Ziley Singh v. Registrar, Cane Co-operative Societies, (1972) 3 SCR 149: (1972) 1 SCC 719 (723): AIR 1972 SC 758. (U.P. Co-operative Societies Act, 1965)In relation to any multi-State co-operative society or class of such societies, means the year ending on the 31st day of March of the year and where the accounts of such society or class of such societies are, with the previous sanction of the Central Registrar, balanced on any other day, the year ending on such day. [The Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (37 of 2002), s. 3 (i)]...


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