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cause

fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause

jurisdiction

decisions of lower tribunals and to reverse, affirm, or modify those decisions compare original jurisdiction in this entry concurrent jurisdiction : jurisdiction that is shared by different courts and that may allow for removal [two states may

Consideration

the party promising may, in such case, sue immediately after the promise is made. (c) Mutual promises are concurrent considerations, and will support each other if they be made simultaneously, unless one or the other be void.

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Divisional Court

judges of the High Court, or as many more judges as the President of a Division, with the concurrence of the judges of the Division, may think expedient, for the transaction of such business as may be

Estate

or an equitable estate, land being an immovable is capable of being the subject of many estates existing concurrently with each other, thus the absolute ownership or fee simple may be leased and sub-leased, mortgaged and charged,

Duchy Court of Lancaster

those on the Equity side of the Courts of Exchequer and Chancery, and the Chancery Court exercised a concurrent jurisdiction with the Duchy Court, so that it seems not to be a Court of Record. See COUNTY

Repugnancy

India, if a State law is repugnant to the Union law relating to the same subject in the concurrent list, the Union law will prevail and the State law will fail to the extent of repugnancy; however,

Rectification

Rectification. The power to rectify a written document which, as drawn out, does not express the mutual and concurrent intention of the parties, is a power which the Courts of equity always possessed; but such jurisdiction is

Person of unsound mind

269/L.2), relate chiefly to inquisitions (q.v.) and the management and administration of the property of patients. See also CONCURRENT JURISDICTION; MASTER INLUNACY. See Mills and Poyser's Lunacy Practice; Archbold's Lunacy and Mental Deficiency; Pope on Lunacy; Heywood

Negligence

(2001) 8 SCC 151. Negligence, has many manifestations ' it may be active negligence, collateral negligence, comparative negligence, concurrent negligence, continued negligence, criminal negligence, gross negligence, hazardous negligence, active and passive negligence, willful or reckless negligence or

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