Discrepant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: discrepantDiscrepancy and contradiction
Discrepancy and contradiction, 'discrepancy' has to be distinguished from 'contradiction'. Whereas contradiction in the statement of the witness is fatal for the case, minor discrepancy or variance in evidence will not make the prosecution's case doubtful. The normal course of the human conduct would be that while narrating a particular incidence there may occur minor discrepancies, such discrepancies in law may render credential to the depositions. Parrot like statements are disfavoured by the Courts, State of Himachal Pradesh v. Lakh Raj, (2000) 1 SCC 247: AIR 1999 SC 3916 (3921). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 161]...
Discrepancy
Discrepancy, has to be distinguished from con-tradiction discrepancy pointed out was minor or not or the same amounted to contradiction, regard is required to be had to the circumstances of the case by keeping in view the social status of the witnesses and environment in which such witness was making the statement, State of Himachal Pradesh v. Lekhraj, (2000) 1 SCC 247....
Discrepance
The state or quality of being discrepant disagreement variance discordance dissimilarity contrariety...
Discrepant
Discordant at variance disagreeing contrary different...
Answers to questions
Answers to questions, means the answers may be either oral or written, in the House of Commons, if a member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk or if he is not present to ask it etc. the Minister concerned causes an answer to be printed in the official Report; in the event of a discrepancy between the texts of the answers sent to the member and the official Report, the text sent to the member is considered the authentic reply. Parlia-mentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 292, 345.An oral answer is confined to the points contained in the question with such explanation only as would make the answer intelligible; however, a certain latitude is permitted to the Ministers of the Crown by permitting them to read out material and quotations from speeches at question time. Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 293....
Exchange
Exchange, a contract of sale denotes a transfer of property in goods by mutual consent. Such a transfer of ownership must be in relation to transfer from one person to another. The consideration would be a price in the form of money. Only when the consideration for transfer consists of other goods it may be an exchange or barter, Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Commissioner of Trade Tax, (2006) 5 SCC 624: (2006) 11 JT 111: (2006) 5 SCALE 595: (2006) 5 Supreme 73: (2006) 4 SLT 189: (2006) 7 SCJ 60: (2006) 6 SCJD 106: (2006) 147 STC 57.Exchange, often contracted into change, a building or other place in considerable trading cities, where merchants, agents, bankers, brokers, and other persons concerned in commerce, meet at certain times to confer and treat together of matters relating to exchanges, remittances, payments, adventures, assurances, freights, and other mercantile negotiations, both by sea and land.Also used to designate that species of mercantile transactions by which the debts of...
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