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Jury
by jury upon application of a party under s. 6 of the Act was a matter in the discretion of a court or judge. Qualification.--The property qualification of jurors is fixed by the (English) County Juries Act,
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
Power
merely his wish or indication of his mind that the person appointed by him should use his own discretion and act as he thought best. In the former case, it is a trust, whereas in the latter
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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
Prohibition
or a party proceed after such prohibition, an attachment may be had against them for contempt, at the discretion of the Court that awarded it; and an action for damages will lie against them, by the party
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
Witness
is over, nor even when the judge has begun to sum up, for any witness may at the discretion of the judge be recalled t any time before the verdict is given. See especially title EVIDENCE; EXPERTS;
Widow
widow is entitled equally with next of kin to administration of her deceased husband's estate subject to the discretion of the Court [see In the Estate of Paine, A.J., (1916) 115 LT 935] In regard to deaths
Unparliamentary expressions
Speaker is of the opinion that such words have been used in the debate, he may, in his, discretion, order expunction of such words from the proceeding of the House, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business
Unfettered
Unfettered, does not and cannot mean unbridles or unrestrictive powers and though exercise of discretion of the widest possible amplitude, but the same has to be exercised in a manner with care, caution
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