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Res judicata

adjudicated upon and cannot again be placed in contest between the same parties. A previous decision of a competent Court on fact which are the foundation of the right and the relevant law applicable to the determination

Residuum rule

hearsay evidence will be upheld on judicial review only if the decision is founded on at least some competent evidence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1311

Right to move any Court

in which the specified rights are sought to be enforced and covers all relevant categories of jurisdictions of competent courts under which the said actions would otherwise have been normally entertained and tried, Makhan Singh v. State

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Rule of law

Wright, 904 P 2d 403 (1995). Rule of law, the binding character of judgments pronounced by courts of competent jurisdiction is itself an essential part of the rule of law, and the rule of law obviously is

Sale embraces

a retail dealer himself of motor spirit or lubricants sold to him for retail sale was beyond the competence of the State legislature, Indian Steel & Wire Products Ltd. v. DN Roy, (1964) 68 Cal WN 998.

Sale of goods

-- and that is its norm, there is no sale of goods, and it is not within the competence of the Provincial Legislature under entry 48 to impose a tax on the supply of the materials used

Savings banks

though cases of failure of 'share-out' clubs and similar Savings Bank institutions are frequent owing to want of competent supervision by depositors who are chiefly of the working classes, or poor people.

Scheduled industry

2 of the Act applies not only to industrial undertakings but also to other industries. Therefore Parliament was competent to legislate in regard to the subject-matter of the impugned Act, Harakchand Ratanchand Banthia v. Union of India,

Fair procedure

Fair procedure, would mean that the candidates taking park in the examination must be capable of competing with each other by fair means. One cannot have an advantage either by copying or by having a

Capital offences (Scotland)

(50 & 51 Vict. c. 35), by s. 56 enacts that 'a capital sentence shall no longer be competent except on conviction of murder or of offences against the Act (10 Geo 4, c. 38), which statute

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