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Application
Application, a request, a motion to a Court or judge; the disposal of a thing.A prayer made to an authority for relief to set aside an order of another authority, Shaik Saidulu v. Chukka Yesu Ratnam, (2002) 3 SCC 130 (136): AIR 2002 SC 749. [Hyderabad Municipal Corporatiion Act (2 of 1956) s. 71]Includes a petition. [Limitation Act, 1963 (36 of 1963), s. 2 (b)]Means an application made to a Tribunal under s. 19. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (b)]Means an application made under s. 19. [Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), s. 3 (b)]Means an application made to a Tribunal under section 19, Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2(b).Means an application made under section 16, Railways Claims Tribunal Act, 1987 (54 of 1987), s. 2(a).An application for the purpose is a request by all the lessees to permit the change of the user of the land showing readiness and willingness to ...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Common Pleas, the Court of
Common Pleas, the Court of, so called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject, one of the three Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, presided over by a lord chief justice and five (formerly four) puisne, judges. It was detached from the King's Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I., and the 14th clause of Magna Charta enacted that it should not follow the King's Court, but be held in some certain place. Its jurisdiction was altogether confined to civil matters, having no cognizance in criminal cases, and was concurrent with that of the King' Bench and Exchequer in personal actions and ejectment. It had a peculiar or exclusive jurisdiction in the following cases:-(I.) Formal or plenary.(1) Real actions, under the C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26.(2) Under the (English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), over petitions complaining of an undue return or undue election of a member of Parliament.(II....
General Council
General Council (of the Bar), the full title of the Bar Council. See BAR COUNCIL.General Council (of the Catholic Church), a council consisting of members of the Church from most parts of the world, but not from every part, as an --cumenical Council.'The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom' (Medical Act, 1858). The Medical Council, as it is commonly called, has power to settle the qualifications of medical practitioners and to strike off the register any of them convicted of felony or misdemeanour or judged guilty by the Council of 'infamous conduct in any professional respect' (s. 29), see R. v. General Medical Council, Ex parte Kynaston, (1930) 1 KB 562. The High Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with the Council's bona fide decision, Allbutt v. Medical Council, (1889) 23 QBD 400. The Council consists of five Crown nominees, twenty-two persons chosen by the same number of universities and colleges, and five persons elected by the registere...
House of Commons
House of Commons, one of the constituent parts of Parliament, being the assembly of knights of shires, or the representatives of counties; citizens, or the representatives of cities; and burgesses, or the representatives of boroughs.The lowest chamber of British and Canadian Parlia-ment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744.Property Qualification.--The property qualification of members, which was by 1 & 2 Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 & 22 Vict. c. 26.Payment of Members.--Members were from very early times entitled to payment at the rate of 4s. a day for county, and 2s. a day for borough members, payable by their constituents. This has never been abolished, and is recognized by the unrepeated 6 Hen. 8, c. 16, by which members may not depart from Parliament without licence from the Speaker on pain of losing their 'wages,' though 35 Hen. ...
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff
Sheriff, Shire-reeve, or Shiriff [fr. scire, Sax., fr. scyran, to divide, and gerefa, a guardian (vicecomes)], the chief officer of the Crown in every county.The judges, together with the other great officers and privy councillors, meet in the Exchequer on the morrow (November 12th) of St. Martin, yearly; and then and there the judges propose three persons from each county, to be reported, if approved of, to the King, who afterwards appoints one of them to be sheriff, and such appointment generally takes place about the end of the following Hilary Term. If a sheriff die in office, the appointment of another is the mere act of the Crown.The Sheriffs Act, 1887, repeals and, so far as they were not obsolete, re-enacts the very numerous enactments as to sheriffs from 3 Edw. 1, c. 9, to s. 16 of the (English) Judicature Act, 1881, inclusive. By s. 3 of this Act a sheriff is annually appointed, having (s. 4) sufficient land within the county to answer the King and his people; by s. 23 every ...
Persona designata
Persona designata, a persona designata, is 'a person who is pointed out or described as an individual, as opposed to a person ascertained as a member of a class, or as filling a particular character.' (See Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary, 4th Edn., p. 253). In the words of Schwabe, C.J. In Parthasarathi Naidu v. Koteswara Rao, ILR 47 Mad 369: (AIR 1924 Mad 561) (FB), personae designate are 'persons selected to act in their private capacity and not in their capacity as Judges', Central Talkies v. Dwarka Prasad, AIR 1961 SC 606 (609): (1961) 3 SCR 495; see also Mukri Gopalan v. Cheppilat, (1995) 5 SCC 5: AIR 1995 SC 2272.Persona designata, connotes person pointed out by name or other personal description in contradis-tinction to one whose identity is to be ascertained by the office which he holds. So then, where a person is indicated in statute not by name but by an official designation a question will arise whether the intention was to single him out as a persona designata, Ram Chandra ...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Confirmation of Bishop
Confirmation of Bishop, the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive prior to the consecration of the bishop by the archbishop, as directed (see CONGE D'ESLIRE) by 25 Hen. 8, c. 20. It was undecided, from1848 to 1902, whether this ceremony be ministerial or judicial, i.e., whether the archbishop can refuse to confirm. See Queen v. Archbishop of Canterbury, (1848) 11 QB 483, in which the Court of four judges was equally divided in discharging a rule for a mandamus to hear objections, on the ground of heterodoxy, to the confirmation of Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford. Since then objection has been many times taken to a confirmation:-to that of Dr. Prince Lee as Bishop of Manchester, in 1848; to that of Dr. Temple as Bishop of Exeter, in 1869; to that of Dr Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1896; to that of Dr. Creighton as Bishop of London, in 1897; to that of Dr. Ingram as Bishop of London, in 1901; and to th...
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding v. Lorant, (1851) 3 HLC 418. The adjournment of a trial is in the discretion of the judge. As to adjournment of trial in the High Court, see R.SC. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34; and as to adjournments in County Courts, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 36.As to adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), s. 16.Unless the object of the context or inquiry otherwise warrants the term 'adjournment' in connection with a meeting should be applied only to the case of a meeting which has already convened and which is thereafter postponed and not to a case where a notice convening a meeting is cancelled and subsequently, a notice for holding the ...
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