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Hesitancy

The act of hesitating or pausing to consider slowness in deciding vacillation also the manner of one who hesitates

Hesitant

Not prompt in deciding or acting hesitating

Judicable

Capable of being judged capable of being tried or decided upon

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Action

in personam brought against an individual, actions in rem, which determine questions of title, and possessory actions, which decide merely the right to have physical control of the property in dispute (Odgers on the Common Law, p.

Pronounced

Strongly marked unequivocal decided A Gallicism

Accessories

Joint Commercial Officer, (1991) 1 SCC 514 (517). Whether an article or part is an accessory cannot be decided with reference to its necessity to its effective use of the vehicle as a whole. General adaptability has

Access

reasonable enjoyment of his property, Lyon v. Fishmongers Co., (1876) 1 AC 662 (684); and the same case decides that an owner of land has a right of access to and from water whether tidal or non-tidal

A requirement of the court

it is settled law that under Order 41, Rule 27(1)(b) of CPC, whenever the court finds difficulty in deciding an issue, it can direct additional evidence to be adduced, treating the need for evidence as 'a requirement

Sea otter

valued especially by the Chinese It is allied to the common otter but is larger with feet more decidedly webbed

Russian Church

religious worship The czar was the nominal head of the church but he never claimed the right of deciding questions of theology and dogma It still forms a portion by far the largest of the Orthodox Eastern

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