Delayment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: delayment Page: 2Enlargement or abridgement of time
Enlargement or abridgement of time, Order VI, r. 2(14) of the Supreme Court Rules, 1966 speaks of applications for enlargement or abridgement of time. Here the words 'enlargement or abridgement of time' take in applications for enlargement of time appointed by the Rules. The significant feature in the Rules is that applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petitions. Any application for con-donation of delay in filing petition of appeal is included in application for enlargement or abridge-ment of time, C.I.T., Bombay City v. R.H. Pandit, Managing Trustees of Trust, Bombay (1974) 2 SCC 627: AIR 1974 SC 2269: (1975) 2 SCR 7....
moratorium
moratorium pl: -riums or: -ria [New Latin, from Late Latin, neuter of moratorius dilatory, from morari to delay, from mora delay] 1 a : an authorized period of delay in the performance of an obligation (as the paying of a debt) b : a waiting period set by an authority 2 : a suspension of activity ...
McNabb-Mallory rule
McNabb-Mallory rule [after McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943) and Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449 (1957), U.S. Supreme Court cases that established the rule] : a doctrine in criminal procedure: an arrestee must be brought before a magistrate without unnecessary delay in order for a confession made during detention to be admissible NOTE: In practice, the rule is not absolute. Under the U.S. Code, a delay of more than six hours in bringing an arrestee before a magistrate will not render a confession inadmissible if the delay was reasonable in light of distance and transportation. ...
default
default [Anglo-French defalte defaute lack, fault, failure to answer a summons, from defaillir to be lacking, fail, from de-, intensive prefix + faillir to fail] 1 : failure to do something required by duty (as under a contract or by law): as a : failure to comply with the terms of a loan agreement or security agreement esp. with regard to payment of the debt b in the civil law of Louisiana : a delay in performing under a contract that is recognized by the other party NOTE: A party whose performance under a contract is delayed is not automatically in default. Rather, the law of Louisiana requires that the other party “put him or her in default” by a written or witnessed oral request for performance, by filing suit, or by invoking a specific provision in the contract. Moratory damages may be recoverable for loss caused by the delay. 2 : failure to defend against a claim in court (as by failing to file pleadings or to appear in court) see also default judgment at judg...
Causam nobis significes quare
Causam nobis significes quare, a writ to a mayor of a town, etc., who was by the king's writ demanded to give seisin of lands to the king's grantee; on his delaying to do it, requiring him to show cause why he so delayed the performance of his duty....
Reprieve
Reprieve [fr. reprendre, Fr., to take back], the suspension of the execution of a criminal's sentence.It may take place (1) ex mandato regis, at the mere pleasure of the Crown.Or (2) ex arbitrio judicis, either before or after judgment; as, where the judge is not satisfied with the verdict, or the indictment is insufficient, or any favourable circumstances appear in the criminal's character, in order to give time to apply to the Crown for either an absolute or conditional pardon.Or (3) ex necessitate legis; as where a woman is capitally convicted and pleads her pregnancy. See JURY FMATRONS.Or (4) if the criminal become non compos, 4 Steph. Com.Temporary postponement of execution of a criminal sentence, esp. a death sentence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1305.Reprieve, is derived from reprendre, to keep back, and signifies the withdrawing of the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law 757, 2nd Edn., 1826.Mean...
Go slow
Go slow, Go-slow which is a picturesque description of deliberate delaying of production by workman pretending to be engaged in the factory is one of the most pernicious practices that discontented or disgruntled workmen some time resort to. It would not be far wrong to call this dishonest. For, while thus delaying production and thereby reducing the output the workmen claim to have remained employed and thus to be entitled to full wages. Apart from this also, 'go-slow' is likely to be much more harmful than total cessation of work by strike. For, while during a strike much of the machinery can be fully turned off, during the 'go-slow' the machinery is kept going on a reduced speed which is often extremely damaging to machinery parts. For all these reasons 'go-slow' has always been considered a serious type of misconduct, Bharat Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Jai Singh, (1962) 3 SCR 684: (1967) 2 LLJ 644....
Double complaint, or Double quarrel
Double complaint, or Double quarrel, duplex querela, a grievance made known by a clerk or other person, to the archbishop of the province, against the ordinary, for delaying or refusing to do justice in some cause ecclesiastical, as to give sentence, or institute a clerk, as in the celebrated case of Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter, (1850) 19 LJ Ex 376, CP 200, QB 279, in which the plaintiff, a clerk, succeeded on appeal in duplex querela against the defendant for not instituting him on the ground of alleged unorthodox views on Baptism, etc. It is termed a double complaint, because it is most commonly made against both the judge and him at whose suit justice is denied or delayed; and by Canon 95 the period of two months which the bishop had to inquire of the sufficiency of a clerk was abridged to twenty-eight days, before the expiration of which a duplex querela could not be brought....
Moratory
Of or pertaining to delay esp designating a law passed as in a time of financial panic to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes bills of exchange and other obligations shall mature or become due...
Protraction
A drawing out or continuing the act of delaying the termination of a thing prolongation continuance delay as the protraction of a debate...
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