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contested matter Those matters, other than objections to claims, that are disputed but are not within the definition of an "adversary proceeding". Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Heard and finally decided
Heard and finally decided, the proceeding either civil or criminal shall be deemed to continue to be pending until it is heard and finally decided, that is to say, in a case where an appeal or revision is competent, until the appeal or revision is heard and finally decided or, where no appeal or revision is preferred, until the period of limitation prescribed for such appeal or revision has expired, Rama Dayal Markarha v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1978 SC 921: (1978) 2 SCC 630: (1978) 3 SCR 497.The expression 'heard and finally decided' in s. 11,CPC,1908 means a matter on which the court has exercised its judicial mind and has after argument and consideration come to a decision on a contested matter. It is essential that it should have been heard and finally decided, Pandurang Ramchandra Mandlik v. Shantabai Ramchandra Ghatge, AIR 1989 SC 2240 (2249): (1989) Supp 2SCR 1....
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697.Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to amount, or as to the character of the questions to be determined.By 'jurisdiction' is meant the extent of the power which is conferred upon the court by its constitu-tion to try a proceedings, Raja Soap Factory v. S.P. Shantharaj, AIR 1965 SC 1449 (1451): (1965) 2 SCR 800.The word 'jurisdiction' is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally means the entitle-ment 'to enter upon the enquiry in question'. If there was an entitlement to enter upon an enquiry, ...
priority
priority pl: -ties : precedence in exercise of rights in the same subject matter [secured interests have over unsecured ones] adj 1 : having precedence over another in the exercise of rights in the same subject matter [a creditor] [a claim] 2 : of or relating to priority [a contest] ...
Controvert
To make matter of controversy to dispute or oppose by reasoning to contend against in words or writings to contest to debate...
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
Res judicata
Res judicata, a final judgment already decided between the same parties or their privies on the same question by a legally constituted Court having jurisdiction is conclusive between the parties, and the issue cannot be raised again. The judgment may have been given by a foreign Court, Tarleton v. Tarleton, 4 M&S 21. A matter which is res judicata cannot be further gone into; but if the decision was obtained by fraud it can be set aside, Cole v. Langford, (1898) 2 QB 36. Criminal proceedings do not constitute a res judicata as regards civil proceedings arising out of the same facts, Caione v. Palace Shipping Co., (1907) 1 KB 670; and see also Anderson v. Collinson, (1901) 2 KB 107. See ESTOPPEL.When it is said that a previous decision is res judicata, it is meant that the right claimed has been 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 appli...
Estoppel
Estoppel, a conclusive admission, which cannot be denied. It is of three kinds:-(1) By matter of record, which imports such absolute and incontrovertible verity, that no person against whom it is producible shall be permitted to aver against it. A record concludes the parties thereto, and their privies, whether in blood, in law, or by estate, upon the point adjudged, but not upon any matter collateral or adjudged by inference, A judgment in an action in rem is absolutely binding upon all the world.A conviction on the same facts is no estoppel in a civil action because the parties are not the same, Palace Shipping Co. v. Caine, 1907 AC 386.(2) By deed. No person can be allowed to dispute his own solemn deed, which is therefore conclusive against him, and those claiming under him, even as to the facts recited in it. The general rule is that an indenture estops all who are parties to it, while a deed-poll only estops the party who executesit, since it is his sole language and act, Shep. T...
Burden of proof
Burden of proof [onus probandi, Lat.]. the most prominent canon of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, nonqui negat; Actori incumbit onus probandi; and Affirmanti non neganti incumbit probatio. The burden of proof lies on the person who has to support his case by proof of a fact which is peculiarly within his own knowledge, or of which he is supposed to be cognizant. See Best on Evidence, Bk. III., Pt. 1, ch. 2.The expression 'burden of proof' really means two different things. It means sometimes that a party is required to prove an allegation before judgment can be given in its favour; it also means that on a contested issue one of the two contending parties has to introduce evidence, Narayan Bhagwantrao Gosavi v. Gopal Vinayak Gosavi, AIR 1960 SC 100: (1960) 1 SCR 773: (1960) SCJ 263.The phrase 'burden of proof' has not been defined in the Indian Evidence Act....
Colony
Colony [fr. colo, Lat., to cultivate], a settlement in a foreign country possessed and cultivated, either wholly or partially, by immigrants and their descendants, who have a political connection with and subordination to the mother-country whence they emigrated. In other words, it is a place peopled from some more ancient city or country.England was not the first among European nations that planted settlements in parts beyond Europe. But by her own colonization, and by the conquests of the settlements of other nations, she was now acquired a more extensive dominion of colonies and dependencies than any other nation. The colonies of Great Britain exceed in number, extent, and value those of every other country.In an Act of Parliament (English) passed after 1889 the expression 'colony' means by s. 18(3), of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'any part of her Majesty's dominions, exclusive of the British Islands and of British India, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central ...
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