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Home Dictionary Name: dicerIdem est nihil dicere et insufficienter dicere
Idem est nihil dicere et insufficienter dicere [Lat.], it is the same thing to say nothing and not to say sufficient....
Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare
Adjournamentum est ad diem dicere seu diem dare [Lat.], An adjournment is to appoint a day or to give a day.Adjourn has narrow and restricted meaning as 'refer' , Peter P.O. v. Sara, AIR 2007 Ker 81; Babu Premaranjan v. Superintendent of Police, (2003) 3 KLT 177. [Kerala High Court Act, 1959, s. 3]This refers to Parliament, and distinguishes adjournment from Prorogation....
Judicis est jus dicere, non dare
Judicis est jus dicere, non dare. Loosely, a judge should administer the law as he finds it, not make it....
Nemo sibi esse judex vel suis jus dicere debet
Nemo sibi esse judex vel suis jus dicere debet [Lat.], no one ought to be his own judge, or the tribunal in his own affairs....
Just
Just, the expression 'just' denotes equitability, fairness and reasonableness, and non arbitrary. If it is not so it cannot be just (See Helen C. Rebello v. Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation, AIR 1998 SC 3191), Divisional Controller KSTRC v. Mahadeva Shetty, AIR 2003 SC 4172 (4177): (2003) 7 SCC 197. (Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, s. 163A and Schedule II)The word 'just' as its nomenclature, denotes equit-ability, fairness and reasonableness having large peripheral field. The largeness is, of course, not arbitrary; it is restricted by the conscience which is fair, reasonable and equitable, if it exceeds; it is termed as unfair, unreasonable, inequitable not just. In Law Lexicon, 5th Edn., by T.P. Mukherjee 'Just' is described:The term just' is derived from the latin word Justus. It has various meanings and its meaning is often governed by the context. 'Just' may apply in nearly all of its senses, either to ethics or law, denoting something which is morally right and fair and some...
dictum
dictum pl: dic·ta [-tə] [Latin, utterance, from neuter of dictus, past participle of dicere to say] : a view expressed by a judge in an opinion on a point not necessarily arising from or involved in a case or necessary for determining the rights of the parties involved called also obiter dictum compare holding, judgment, precedent, stare decisis NOTE: Dicta have persuasive value in making an argument, but they are not binding as precedent. ...
indict
indict [alteration of earlier indite, from Anglo-French enditer, from Old French, to write down, ultimately from Latin indicere to proclaim, from in- toward + dicere to say] : to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a grand jury in due form of law compare accuse, arraign, charge ...
judge
judge judged judg·ing [Old French jugier, from Latin judicare, from judic- judex judge, from jus right, law + dicere to decide, say] vt 1 : to hear and decide (as a litigated question) in a court of justice [ a case] 2 : to pronounce after inquiry and deliberation [he was judged incompetent] vi : to make a determination : decide [ between two accounts] n : a public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in court ;also : one (as a justice of the peace) who performs one or more functions of such an official ...
judicial
judicial [Latin judicialis, from judicium judgment, from judic- judex judge, from jus right, law + dicere to determine, say] 1 a : of or relating to a judgment, the function of judging, the administration of justice, or the judiciary b : of, relating to, or being the branch of government that is charged with trying all cases that involve the government and with the administration of justice within its jurisdiction compare administrative, executive, legislative 2 : created, ordered, or enforced by a court [a foreclosure] compare conventional, legal ju·di·cial·ly adv ...
juridical
juridical [Latin juridicus, from jur- jus law + dicere to say] 1 : of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge [raises a question regarding trial] 2 : of or relating to law or jurisprudence : legal [nowhere in… opinions can we discover any overriding rule "Brown v. Superior Court of Sacramento Cty., 655 P.2d 1260 (1982)"] ...
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