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Specific performance

rule of natural justice that a person should perform his agreement enforces, pursuant to a regulated and judicial discretion, the actual accomplishment of a thing stipulated for, on the ground that what is lawfully agreed to be

Solitary confinement

Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide for sentences of imprisonment 'with or without solit-ary confinement' in the discretion of the Court, and also that no offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for a longer period

Sewer

which used to be granted pro re nata at the pleasure of the Crown, and later at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and Chief Justices, pursuant to the Statute of Sewers (23 Hen. 8,

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Prize Court

and lawful prize to the Crown, and it was by a subsequent Act of the Royal Judgment and Discretion that the proceeds of the prize might be distributed among the captors. At the present day the conditions

Service out of the jurisdiction

Ireland. As to service of a summons, ordr, or notice, see r. 8A. As to the exercise of discretion in giving leave, see Watson & Sons v. Daily Record, Ltd., (1907) 1 KB 853. There can be

Sentence of a Court

see next title), and treason) the extent of the sentence is within a given maximum left to the discretion of the Court, such few maximum sentences as previously were enjoined having been abolished by the (English) Penal

Security for costs

other negotiable instrument, the power to require the plaintiff to give security for costs shall be in the discretion of the Court of Judge. As to security for the costs of an appeal, see Ord. LVIII., r.

Sanction

prosecute the Chief Minister is the exclusive function of the Governor to be exercised by him in his discretion, State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak, AIR 1982 SC 1249.

Recovery of land

Act of 1888 are to be construed as references to s. 48 of 1934. As to the judges' discretion under s. 138 of the County Courts Act, 1888, see Sheffield Corporation v. Luxford, (1929) 2 KB 180.

Re-examination

cross-examination. If the re-examination disclose new matter which the cross-examining party could not anticipate, the Court in its discretion may permit him to cross-examine upon it.

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