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judicial act : an act deriving from the normal exercise of judicial power within the proper jurisdiction used as a criterion for absolute judicial immunity ...
Criterion
A standard of judging any approved or established rule or test by which facts principles opinions and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them...
Experientialism
The doctrine that experience either that of ourselves or of others is the test or criterion of general knowledge opposed to intuitionalism...
overlearn
To learn a fact or skill repetitively beyond the point where it can be immediately recalled in experimental psychology to continue to learn beyond the point where the criterion of adequate learning has been reached...
Shibboleth
A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites The Ephraimites not being able to pronounce sh called the word sibboleth See Judges xii...
Armorial bearings
Armorial bearings, a device depicted on the (now imaginary) shield of one of the nobility, of which gentry is the lowest degree. The criterion of nobility is the bearing of arms, or armorial bearings, received from ancestry. There is nothing, however, to prevent persons assuming arbitrary insignia and armorial bearings; and all persons entitled to bear arms can register their genealogies and families at the Heralds' College, Benet's Hill, London, on payment of a moderate fee, the heralds being the examiners of these matters and the recorders of genealogies. 43 Geo. 3, c. 161, imposed an assessed tax upon armorial bearings, whether borne on plate, carriages, seals, or in any other way. This Act is now replaced by the (English) Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 19, by which 'armorial bearings' includes any armorial bearings, crest, or ensign, by whatever name called, and whether registered in the College of Arms or not. This Act, by s. 18, fixes the tax as fo...
But for sex
But for sex, in English law 'but for sex' test has been developed to mean that no less favourable treatment is to be given to women on gender-based criterion which would favour the opposite sex and women will not be deliberately selected for less favourable treatment because of their sex, Air India Cabin Crew Asson v. Yeshaswinee Merchant, (2003) 6 SCC 277 (302)....
Certificate
Certificate, a testimony given in writing to declare or verify the truth of anything. Certificates are frequently referred to or required by Statute. A certificate is the usual evidence of the title to shares in a company. See (English) Companies Act, 1929, ss. 67 and 68; for Certificate of Incorporation, see ss. 15 and 329, ibid.; and commencement of business, s. 94, ibid., and s. 82, ibid., as to registration of charges. Also ALIENS and Share Certificate; and see Land Certificate.A document in which a fact is formally attested, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Trial by certificate, which has long been obsolete, took place in those cases in which the evidence of the person certifying was, by custom or otherwise, the only proper criterion of the point in dispute; see 3 Bl. Com. 333.As to when certificates and examined copies are admissible in evidence, consult Taylor on Evidence, and the (English) Documentary Evidence Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 113) (UK).As to the Master's Certificate in...
Equivalent post
Equivalent post, the true criterion for equivalence is the status and the nature and responsibility of the duties attached to the two posts. Although the two posts of Principal and Reader are carried, on the same scale of pay, the post of Principal undoubt-edly has higher duties and responsibilities, Vice Chancellor L.N. Mithila University v. Dayanand Jha, AIR 1986 SC 1200 (1202): (1986) 3 SCC 7. [Bihar State Universities Act, 1976, s. 10(14)]...
Fee
Fee [fr. feoh, Sax.; fee, Dan., cattle; feudum, Med. Lat.; feu, Scot.], property peculiar; reward or recom-pense for services. See FEES. Also an estate of inheritance divided into there species: (1) fee-simple absolute; (2) qualified or conditional or base fee, including (3) fee-tail, formerly fee-conditional. By the (English) Law of Properties Act, 1925, s. 1, a fee-simple absolute in possession and a term of years absolute are the only estates in land capable of being conveyed or created at law. All other estates in land take effect as equitable interests [ibid., s. 1 (4)]. See FEE-SIMPLE.A charge for labour or services esp. professional services; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 629.A 'fee' is generally defined to be a charge for a special service rendered to individuals by some governmental agency. The distinction between a tax and a fee lies primarily in the fact that a tax is levied as a part of a common burden, while a fee is a payment for a special benefit or privilege, Com...
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