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Habere facias visum

real actions, as informed on, etc., where a view was required to be taken of the lands in controversy. See FORMEDON.

First hearing

20(4) means the date on which the court proposes to apply its mind to determine the points in controversy between the parties to the suit and to frame issues, if necessary, Advaita Nand v. Judge, Small Cause

Finding

for passing the final order or giving the final decision in the appeal, has been the subject of controversy between the interested parties or on which the parties con-cerned have been given a hearing, C.I.T. v. Vadle

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Due course of law

most comprehensive sense; to be heard, by testimony or otherwise, and to have the right determination of the controversy by proof, every material fact which bears on the question of fact or liability be conclusively proved or

Determination and order

occurs in Art. 136 of the Constitution of India signifies an effective expression of opinion which ends a controversy or a dispute by some authority to whom it is submitted under a valid law for disposal. The

Deposit

and sequestrations, made by one or more persons, each of whom has a different and adverse interest in controversy touching it; and these last are of two sorts, conventional, or such as are made by the mere

Lis mota

of deceased members of a family, in matters of pedigree, are inadmissible in evidence, if made after a controversy has arisen as to the facts on which the claim is founded (or, as it is called, post

Lis

Lis [Lat.], a suit, action controversy, or dispute.

Symbol'ography

judicial or extra-judicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judicially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, testaments or last wills, West's Symbol. See Dav. Prec. in Conv.,

Litigious

Litigious, means 'inviting controversy, relating to or marked by litigation', that which is the subject of law suit (Black's Law Dictionary). Means

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