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Enact

To decree to establish by legal and authoritative act to make into a law especially to perform the legislative act

Decrete

A decree

Decerniture

A decree or sentence of a court

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Judgment

Special Police Establishment, AIR 1980 SC 1510 (1514): (1980) 3 SCC 435: (1980) 3 SCR 982. It includes decree, order, sentence or determination of any Court, Tribunal, Judge or Judicial Officer. [Supreme Court Rules, 1966, R. 2

judgment

holding, opinion, ruling, verdict NOTE: Under Rule 54 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure judgment encompasses a decree and any order from which an appeal lies. cog·no·vit judgment [kÄ g-nō-vit-] : an acknowledgment by a debtor

Appeal

6th Edn., Vol. G., pp. 268-269. In India, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court from any judgment, decree or final order of a High Court whether in a civil, criminal or other proceeding, but it is

Discharge

as regards property; it may be in respect of many other matters. Except in the case of declaratory decrees or decrees of a similar nature, the decree in favour of one person against another requires the person

Specific performance

52 of the (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893. An award of damages may be combined with a decree for specific performance by s. 24 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1873. (see now Judicature Act, 1925, s.

Nullity

efficacy; an error in litigation which is incurable, and thus differs from an irregularity, which is amendable. A decree is said to be a nullity if it is passed by a court having no inherent jurisdiction. Merely

For

the Court-Fees Act. Evidently the expression 'for' when it occurs for the first time means 'for obtaining a decree ordering (payment or recovery for). A decree for declaration of title to money or other property is not

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