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Crown

be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons and for reformation, order, and correction of the same and of all manner of erors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities shall for

Compromise in writing

and categorical statements on oath recorded in writing by the court and duly read and accepted to be correct by the person making the statement and signed by him can be said to be writing, Pushpa Devi

Consultation

the parties involved in the process of consultation on the material facts and points involved to evolve a correct or at least satisfactory solution. There should be meeting of minds between the proposer and the persons to

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Certiorari

depending, that conscionable justice may be therein administered, Strand's Dictionary of Law, Vol. 1, p. 487. Is a corrective in nature, issued by the Superior Court to inferior judicial or quasi-judicial body. Grounds for invoking are excess

Declaration of trust

trust. Intention will create a trust, provided the object of the gift, and the gift itself, can be correctly ascertained, 1 Sand. Uses, 344.

Defective in substance

substance' must mean that the defect was of such a character as to substantially affect the regularity and correct-ness of the previous proceedings, Anil Behari Glash v. Latika Bala Dassi, AIR 1955 SC 566: (1955) 2 SCR

Derogatory clause

cancelling it is abrogated, and the validity of a later document, doing this, is made dependent on the correct repetition of the clause and its formal revocation. Obsolete, Oxf. Dict. As to such a clause in a

Equity

and benignant spirit. Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correction of mere law, where mere law fails on account of its univer-sality and points to the impossibility of

Errata

Errata, implies that there was something in existence which is being corrected, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Twin City Jewellers Association, (2005) 3 SCC 552: (2006) 147 STC 354.

Estoppel

an estoppel must be a representation of an existing fact and must be acted on before it is corrected, Vagliano v. Bank of England, 1891 AC 107; Chadwick v. Manning, (1896) AC 231. The representation must be

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