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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 judge
district judge : the judge of a district court ...
Posting and promotion of district judge
Posting and promotion of district judge, mean post-ing and promotion of person to be district judges, High Court of Punjab & Haryana v. State of Haryana, AIR 1975 SC 613: (1975) 1 SCC 843; United Bank of India v. Meenakshi Sundaram, (1998) 2 SCC 609....
Judicial service
Judicial service, the expression 'judicial service' can be defined as inclusive of a wide variety of offices connected with the administration of justice in one way or the other, Syed T.A. Naoshbandi v. State of J&K, (2003) 9 SCC 592 (604).The expression 'Judicial service' is defined in Article 236 (b) and it means service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district Judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi, AIR 1966 SC 447 (450): (1966) 1 SCR 771.The expression 'Judicial Service' means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of District Judge and other Civil Judicial posts inferior to the District Judge and the ex-pression 'District Judge' includes among others an Additional District Judge and an Additional Sessions Judge, State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616 (1618): (1969) 3 SCC 505, See also Chandra Mohan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ...
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...
Length of service rendered in the cadre
Length of service rendered in the cadre, the criterion for the determination of seniority under the Delhi Rules is the length of service rendered by the candidates during the period when they were rendering service either as District Judge or as Additional District and Sessions Judge in permanent or temporary capacities, G.R. Luthra v. Lt. Governor, AIR 1974 SC 1908: (1975) 1 SCR 974: (1975) 3 SCC 258. [Delhi Higher Judicial Service Rules, 1970, R. 6(3)]...
Service of the Union or of the State
Service of the Union or of the State, article 236(b) defined the expression 'judicial service' means a service consisting exclusively of persons intended to fill the post of district judge and other civil judicial posts inferior to the post of district judge. If this definition, instead of appearing in Art. 236, is placed as a clause before Art. 233(2), there cannot be any dispute that 'the service' in Art. 233(2) can only mean the judicial service, Chandra Mohan v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 1987: (1967) 1 SCR 77....
Shall
Shall, a word of slippery semantics in a rule is not decisive and the context of the statute, the purpose of the prescription, the public injury in the event of neglect of the rule and the conspectus of circumstances bearing on the importance of the condition have all to be considered before condemning a violation as fatal, State of Punjab v. Shamlal Murari, (1976) 1 SCC 719.Shall, does not always mean that an act is obligatory or mandatory and it depends upon the context in which the word 'shall' occurs and the other circumstances, Ramnath Narayana Mauzo of Margoa v. Union Government of India, AIR 1968 Goa 85.Shall, does not always mean that the enactment is obligatory or mandatory. It depends upon the context in which the word shall occurs and the other circumstances, State of Madhya Pradesh v. Azad Bharat Finance Co., (1966) (Supp) SCR 473: (1967) 1 SCJ 815.Shall, in a statute, though generally taken in a mandatory sense, does not necessarily mean that in every case it shall have th...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
Judicial office and Judicial officer
Judicial office and Judicial officer, expression 'Judicial Office' has not been defined under the Constitution, nevertheless, it has to be given meaning in the context of the concept of Judiciary as enshrined in the Constitution of India. The scheme under the Constitution for establishing an independent judiciary is very clear. Article 236(b) defines 'judicial service' to mean district Judges and Judges subordinate thereto. Holder of 'judicial office' under Article 217(2)(a) means the person who exercises only judicial functions, determines causes inter-partes and renders decisions in a judicial capacity, Kumar Padma Prasad v. Union of India, AIR 1992 SC 1213: (1992) 2 SCC 428....
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