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Process
Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(o)] Is largely taken for all the proceedings in any action or prosecution, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end; strictly, the summons by … cited into a Court, because it is the beginning or principal part thereof, by which the rest is directed, Britt. 138. At Common Law the three superior courts at Westminster, in personal actions, differed greatly, before the
verdict
be submitted to a jury for its resolution [the order of the court granting a motion for a directed verdict is effective without any assent of the jury "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 50(a)"] see also … more matters (as counts of an indictment or complaint) submitted to it in trial that ordinarily in civil actions is for the plaintiff or for the defendant and in criminal actions is guilty or not guilty compare
King's Bench
of fictitious proceedings called Bill of Middlesex and Latitat (which see) it usurped jurisdiction over all personal actions; direct jurisdiction in all such actions being given by 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, which abolished these fictitious proceedings. … See CERTIORARI; HABEAS CORPUS; MANDAMUS; QUO WARRANTO. On the plea side it exercised a general jurisdiction over all actions between subject and subject, with the exception of real actions and suits concerning the revenue. Its jurisdiction in
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writ
old common law of England. A plaintiff commenced a suit at law by choosing the proper form of action and obtaining a writ appropriate to the remedy sought; its issuance forced the defendant to comply or to … name of the sovereign or of a court or judicial officer commanding the person to whom it is directed to perform or refrain from performing a specified act NOTE: The writ was a vital official instrument in
derivative action
Matched in: Term derivative action
Immediate purpose
Immediate purpose, 'immediate purpose', in the context in which the expression appears, relates to directness rather than speed, although absence of the latter negatives the former. It denotes connection and timely action, but
Institutions
Actions to which the owner is liable for the hurt or damage done by a beast. Title X. directs what persons are to be employed in carrying on lawsuits. Title XI. treats of the security required to … eighteen; in all, ninety-nine titles. First, it is to be observed that the division is triple--Persons, Tings, and Actions--under which the subject-matter of the four books of the Institutes is comprised. The first book treats of the
privity
an interest see also horizontal privity, vertical privity b : an interest in a transaction, contract, or esp. action that does not derive from direct participation but from a relationship to one of the parties or from … -ties [Old French privité privacy, secret, from Medieval Latin privitat- privitas, from Latin privus private] 1 : the direct connection or relationship between parties to a contract or transaction (as a purchase) [ of contract] see also
Nonsuit
action; by the Rules of 1875 any judgment of nonsuit, unless the court or a judge should otherwise direct, had the same effect as judgment upon the merits for the defendant (English) Jud. Act, 1875, Ord. XLI.,
Personal property
upon some contract, and recoverable by an action at law.Any person may assign personal property, including chattels real, directly to himself and another person or other persons or corporation, by the like means as he might assign
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