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Appropriate proceedings
Appropriate proceedings would include the procedure relating to form, conditions of lodgement of petition compliance with all reasonable directions imposed which would conduce to the smooth conduct of proceeding in this Court. Power to make rules for
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter. Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy...
downwind
on the side or in the direction away from the direction from which the wind is blowing in the direction toward which the wind is
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mandate
1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b : mandamus 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : an
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.
service of process
service of process bringing a judicial proceeding to the notice of a person affected by it by delivering to him or her a summons, or notice of the proceeding. See summons. Source: Federal Judicial Center
interrogatory
interrogatory pl: -ries : a written question required by law to be answered under the direction of a court ;esp : a written question directed by one party to another regarding information that is
Common employment
by reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman was bound to conform where the injury resulted from the workman conforming to such orders or
Amendment
broad contours of the Preamble and the Constitution to carry out the objectives in the Preamble and the Directive Principles, Kesavananda Bharti v. State of Kerala, AIR 1973 SC 1461 (1535). (Constitution of India, Art. 368) If
Annuity
said that an annuitant is entitled to payment in cash of the capital sum where there is a direction to purchase or to invest a definite amount in the purchase of an annuity. If there is only
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