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Privy

'Right Honourable,' during the life of the sovereign who chooses them, but subject to removal at the royal discretion, see R. v. Speyer, (1916) 1 KB 595. Their duties are: (1) To advise the sovereign according to

Presumption of fact and presumption in of law

Court to draw a presumption of fact. In respect of such pre-sumptions, the Act allows the judge a discretion in each case to decide whether the fact which under s. 114 may be presumed has been proved

Optima est lex quae minimum relinquit arbitrio judicis, optimus judex qui minimum sibi

minimum sibi. [* Also termed a 'Speech'] The best law is that which leaves the least to the discretion of the judge, the best judge is he who leaves the least to himself (his own discretion).

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May confirm

May confirm, The words 'may confirm' show that the Government has the discretion either to confirm or not to confirm and continue the detention depending upon whether the circumstances at that

Make such order as it thinks fit

The words 'may make such order as it thinks fit' in the s. vest the Court with a discretion to dispose of the property in any of the three modes specified in the s. 452(1) CrPC, 1973.

Gratuity

a matter of right on fulfilling the conditions subject to which it is earned, any rule conferring absolute discretion not testable on reason, justice or fair play must be treated as utterly arbitrary and unreason-able and discarded,

Penal Servitude

Aug., 1891] a Court has power to award a sentence of penal servitude, the sentence may, at the discretion of the Court, be for any period not less than 3 years, and not exceeding either 5 years,

Closure

and move 'That the question be now put'. The acceptance of a closure motion lies within the sole discretion of the Speaker. Before he accepts it, he considers whether the question before the House has received adequate

As far as possible

As far as possible, these words are not prohibitory in nature, they rather connote a discretion vested in the prescribed authority which can exercise that discretion at the time of carving the surplus area

Adequate and special reasons

Adequate and special reasons, in order to exercise the discretion of reducing the sentence the statutory requirement is that the court has to record 'adequate and special reasons'

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