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Beer

retail except in 'alehouses,' etc., requiring a licence from justices of the peace-grantable or refusable in their absolute discretion-not being considered to afford sufficient facilities for supplying the public with beer, the (English) Beer Act of 1830

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

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,

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Markov chain

A random process Markov process in which the probabilities of discrete states in a series depend only on the properties of the immediately preceding state or the next preceeding

Delegatus non potest delegare

It is a cardinal rule in the law of trusts that a trustee cannot delegate his office or discretions for the exercise of which he was appointed trustee as distinguished from acts and discretions done or exercised

New trial

justice of the case, may be induced to grant a third trial, but this is entirely in the discretion of the Court, even after two concurring verdicts. (10) Where a party has been taken by surprise. A

Ministerial act

of, his own judgment upon the propriety of the act done. In ministerial duty nothing is left to discretion; it is a simple, definite duty, Jamal Uddin Ahmed v. Abu Saleh Najmuddin, AIR 2003 SC 1917 (1924):

Murder

Low Lat.]. It is thus defined by Coke (3 Inst. 47): 'When a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being, with malice aforethought, either express or implied'; see 4 Bl. Com.

Musician, London

required to depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for anytime not more than three

Necessary party, Proper party

The addition of parties is generally not a question of initial jurisdiction of the Court but a judicial discretion which has to be exercised in view of all the facts and circumstances of a particular case, Ramesh

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