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Knowledge

mind, A.S. Krishnan v. State of Kerala, AIR 2004 SC 3229. Is the fact or condition of being cognizant, conscious or aware of something; to be assured or being acquainted with, Arun Nivalaji More v. State of

Maritime Courts

Justice; and all causes and matters pending in that Court, or which would have been within its exclusive cognizance, were assigned to a division of the High Court, called the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division (ibid., s.

Mehar

Mehar, Payment of mehar money, as a customary discharge, is within the cognizance of s. 127, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. The purpose of the payment 'under any customary or personal law'

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Messenger

arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice,

Seneschallo et mareshallo quod non teneat placita de libero tenemento

placita de libero tenemento, a writ addressed to the steward and marshal of England, inhibiting them from taking cognizance of an action in their Court that concerns freehold, Reg. Brev. 185. Abolished.

Piedpoudre, Court of

determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer. The court had cognizance of all matters of contract that could possibly arise within the precinct of that fair or market, and

Previous conviction

of any crime after having been previously convicted of any crime may be subjected, by the Court having cognizance of the crime, to police supervision for seven years or less, under s. 8 of the (English) Prevention

Proceedings pending before a court

a court, means judicial proceedings which started with the submission of a chargesheet or a complaint, or taking cognizance thereon, Satyadhari Choudhary v. State, AIR 1953 Cal 661: 1953 Cr LJ 1540.

Prohibition

a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there depending, on the suggestion that the cognizance thereof belongs not to such Court. It is a remedy provided by the Common Law against the encroachment

Public servant

Means a person who is in service at the time when the court is called upon to take cognizance of the offence, State of Bombay v. Viswakant Srikant Pandit, (1954) 55 Bom LR 717: 1954 Cr LJ

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