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District Registry. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 84, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 60, it is provided that to facilitate proceedings in country districts the Crown may, from time to time, by Order in Council, create district registries and appoint district registrars for the purpose of issuing writs of summons and for entertaining proceedings generally in an action down to and including entry for trial. Documents sealed in any such district registrary are to be received in evidence without further proof; and the district registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power, however, is given to a judge to remove proceedings from a district registry to the Office of the High Court; and see generally, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 84-87, and Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 74 and 66, which are still unrepealed. By Order in Council of 12th of August, 1875, a number of district registries have ...
district court
district court often cap D&C : a trial court having general or limited jurisdiction in a judicial district: as a : one of the federal trial courts sitting in a federal district b : a trial court within a state court system see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts).
districts, municipal utilities, and school districts). Source: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts ...
Collector of the District
Collector of the District, The expression 'Collector of the district' which is a component of the first part of the definition is not defined in the Cotton Cess Act,1923. But the General Clauses Act 10 of 1897 defines 'Collector' as meaning 'in a Presidency town, the Collector of Calcutta, Madras of Bombay as the case may be, and elsewhere the Chief Officer-in-charge of the revenue administra-tion of a district', Devanagere Cotton Mills Ltd. v. Dy. Commissioner (1961) 2 SCR 556: AIR 1961 SC 1441....
District
District [fr. districtus, Lat.]: (1) The circuit or territory within which a person may be compelled to appear; (2) Circuit of authority; province.See [Constitution of India, Art. 243(a)]District means a district in a State. [Constitution of India, Art. 243(a), Art. 243P(a)]...
District Council
District Council: (1) Urban, the name given to an urban sanitary authority, not being the council of a municipal borough, by the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), which Act abolished plural voting for, and any property qualification of, such authority; (2) Rural, the governing body under the same Act of every rural sanitary district, consisting of chairman and councillors, elected by the parishes or other areas. See (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (2 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 31, which deals with the constitution of district councils. This Act consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to the subject....
District Court
District Court, means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other area, the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any other civil court which maybe specified by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette as having jurisdiction in respect of the matters dealt with in this Act. [Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2 (e)]It means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other are the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any other civil court which may be specified by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, as having jurisdiction in respect of the matters dealt with in this Act. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (b)]It means, in the case of any petition under this Act, the Court of the District Judge within the local limits of whose ordinary jurisdiction, or of whose jurisdiction under this Act the marriage was solemnized or, t...
District Judge
District Judge, includes, among other, an additional district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi AIR 1966 SC 447: (1966) 1 SCR 771.See State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616.District Judge shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original Jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(17)]--Means the Judge of a principal civil court of original jurisdiction. [Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2(bb)]...
district
district : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) for administrative, judicial, electoral, or other purposes: as a : an administrative unit esp. of a town or city established for the performance of a special governmental function [the water ] [park ] b : congressional district c : one of the divisions of the United States or of the individual states served by a particular federal or state court see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
district attorney
district attorney : the prosecuting officer of a judicial district see also state's attorney ...
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