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Prevent

To go before to precede hence to go before as a guide to direct

Errant

Wandering deviating from an appointed course or from a direct path roving

Actual physical control

Actual physical control, means direct bodily power over something esp. a vehicle. Many jurisdictions require a showing of 'actual physical control' of a

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Audi alteram partem

557, and Mr. Justice Fortescue's quaint reason for the Common Law supplying the omission in a statute to direct a hearing, Hopkins v. Smethwick Local Board, (1890) 24 QBD 712; Broom's Leg. Max. Similarly, Qui aliquid statuerit

Assizes Relief Act, 1890

the trial of persons charged with offences triable at Quarter Sessions-by which Act justices of the peace are directed to bind over prosecutors to appear at the next practicable Court of Quarter Sessions, in case of the

Assessors

fix the value of taxes, rates, etc. Also persons sometimes associated with judges of courts to advise and direct the decisions of such judges. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 98, replacing the (English) Judicature Act,

Arrangements between debtors and creditors

of creditors in a winding-up by the Court. The (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 288, provides and may direct meetings of creditors or contributories to be held for that purpose; and by s. 251 any arrangement entered

Arising out of his employment

the accident. But it is wide enough to cover the case where there may not necessarily be a direct connection of the workman. There may be circumstances tending to show that the workman received personal injury due

Appointment of persons to be and the posting

of persons to be and the posting' in article 233 have been held to mean initial appointment by direct recruitment of persons to be District Judges and the posting mentioned there is the initial posting, High Court

Appointment

1918), s. 35(1)] The word 'appointment' cannot mean only promotion, It means appointment both by promotion and by direct recruitment, Harkishan Singl v. State of Punjab, (1972) 1 SCC 58: AIR 1971 SC 1602 (1605): (1971) 2

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