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Judicial Act
the duties of the Election Officer certainly fit in with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties,
Marriage
but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious
Interlocutory order
broad or artistic sense. It merely denotes orders of a purely interim or temporary nature which do not decide or touch the important rights or the liabilities of the parties. Any order which substantially affects the right
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Interim orders/interlocutory orders
pendency of a case, fall under one or the other of the following categories: (i) Orders which finally decide a question or issue in controversy in the main case. (ii) Orders which finally decide an issue which
Court
a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade
Character and antecedents
and antecedents, facts which become known to justices when they inquire into the circumstances of a case before deciding to proceed summarily may not be taken into consideration when they come to decide whether to commit for
Bias
India, Arts. 226, 14] Bias may be defined as a pre-conceived opinion or a pre-disposition or pre-determination to decide a case or an issue in a particular manner, so much so that such pre-disposition does not leave
jurisdiction
under its diversity jurisdiction compare pendent jurisdiction in this entry NOTE: Ancillary jurisdiction allows a single court to decide an entire case instead of dividing the claims among several courts and proceedings, and allows a federal court
Question of fact
be so stated under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXXIV, r. 9. In general when a jury is sworn it decides all the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course of the trial a question of
Without prejudice
Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1596. The expression 'without prejudice' means; (1) that the matter had not been decided on merits, and (2) that fresh proceedings according to law were not barred, Superintendent (Tech. I) Central Excise
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