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Letters of marque
this custom seems dictated by nature. The necessity, however, is obvious of calling in the sovereign power to determine when reprisals may be made, else every private sufferer would be a judge in his own cause, 4 … Letters of marque, commissions for extraordinary reprisals for reparation to merchants taken and despoiled by strangers at sea, grantable
Suit for land
of land or immovable property. Whether a suit as a 'suit for land' or not has to be determined on the averments in the plaint with reference to the reliefs claimed therein; where the relief relates to
A court immediately below
to the High Court have different meanings, and are, therefore, not one and the same. The test for determining whether an aggrieved party has a right to appeal, other conditions being fulfilled, is not whether the judgment … immediately below the Division Bench which hears an appeal against his judgment under the relevant clause of the Letters Patent, A. Rangaswamy Iyengar v. Pattammal, AIR 1971 SC 658 (659): (1971) 1 SCC 274.
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Court immediately below and Court subordinate to the High Court
to the High Court' had different meanings, and were therefore not one and the same. The test for determining whether an aggrieved party has a right to appeal, other conditions being fulfilled, is not whether the judgment … immediately below the Division Bench which hears an appeal against his judgment under the relevant clause of the Letters Patent, A. Rangaswamy Iyengar v. Pattamal, AIR 1971 SC 658 (659). [Constitution of India, Art. 133(1)(a)]
King's Bench
of criminal and civil causes: the former in what is called the Crown side or Crown office, the letter in the plea side of the Court. On the Crown side it took cognizance of all criminal causes, … or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a
bill
in some state courts. bill of interpleader : a bill brought by a plaintiff who seeks a court determination of the conflicting claims of two or more defendants to the subject matter of the suit (as money … the instrument is entitled to draw on the banker's funds or credit up to a certain amount : letter of credit bill of exchange : an instrument by one party directing another party to pay a named
Dearle v. Hall
1926 the rule was that the priority of equitable assignments of debts and other choses in action was determined by priority in date of notice to the trustees or other owners of the legal interest in the … on the instrument, if any, creating the trust or under which the interest is acquired, e.g., probate or letters of administration. The trustees (if any) are obliged to give information to persons equitably interested in the property.
Winding-up
therewith, and, among supplementary provisions, any company in liquidation must state on every invoice or order or business letter in which the name of the company appears that the company is being wound up (s. 280). Winding-up … 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who … serjeants-at-law (see that title), and any sergeant-at-law might be appointed judge. The appointment is by the sovereign by letters-patent. Fifteen years' service as a judge, or dis-ability by permanent infirmity, entitles to a pension by (English) Jud.
Magna Carta
at the coming of our foresaid justicers, being sent to take those assizes in the counties, cannot be determined, shall be ended by them in some other place in their circuit; and those things which for difficulty … enacts that:-'If any that holdeth of us lay-fee do die, and our sheriff or bailiff do show our letters-patents of our summons for debt, which the dead man did owe to us, it shall be lawful to
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