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Voluntary jurisdiction

Voluntary jurisdiction, one exercised in matters admitting of no opposition or question, and therefore cognizable by any judge and in any place and on any lawful day, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

and wife have to each other's society. The suit for restitution of conjugal rights is a matrimonial suit, cognizable in the Divorce court, which is brought whenever either the husband or wife is guilty of the injury

Recorder

He is sole judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, 'having cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by Courts of Quarter Sessions in England,' except that he may not grant licences or hear licensing appeals

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Dataria

Formerly a part of the Roman chancery now a separate office from which are sent graces or favors cognizable in foro externo such as appointments to benefices The name is derived from the word datum given or

Perceptible

Capable of being perceived cognizable discernible perceivable

Civil nature

has been stretched further by using the word 'nature' along with it. That is even those suits are cognizable which are not only civil but are even of civil nature. In Article 133 of the Constitution an

Compounding

Leeman, (1844) 6 QB 308; (1846) 9 QB 371; Odgers on the Common Law. And compounding offences only cognizable before magistrates on summary jurisdiction is not within 18 Eliz. c. 5. Corruptly to take reward for helping

Borough Sessions

and at times to be fixed by them. The Court has 'cognizance of all crimes, offences, and matters cognizable by the County Quarter Sessions, whose powers extend to all boroughs which may not have obtained a separate

Court-leet

reorganized all such boroughs as were left untouched by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. All offences cognizable in the leet are inquired of and presented by the suitors of the court, sworn and charged as

Falsely charges

proceedings. In other words, it must be embodied either in a complaint or in a report of a cognizable offence to the police officer or to an officer having authority over the person against whom the allegations

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