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Distringas (that you distrain), anciently called constringas, a writ addressed to the sheriff, and issued to effect various purposes. The cases in which it was used in Common Law proceedings may be thus stated:-(1) a distringas to compel appearance, where defendant had a place of residence within England or Wales. The writ was abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 24, and the practice provided for by s. 17 substituted in its stead.(2) A distringas nuper vicecomitem, to compel the late sheriff to sell goods, etc., or to bring in the body.(3) A distringas in detinue, a special writ of execution to compel defendant to deliver the goods by repeated distresses of his chattels; or a scire facias might be issued against a third person in whose hands they might happen to be, to show cause why they should not be delivered; and if the defendant still continued obstinate, then (if the judgment had been by default or on demurrer) the sheriff summoned an inquest to ascertain the value of ...
Porteous mob
Porteous mob, an extraordinary riot and conspiracy which occurred in Edinburgh in 1736. On the occasion of the execution of a man named Wilson Porteous, the Captain of the City Guard, fearing a riot, had given orders to fire on the crowd who had assembled to witness the spectacle, and several persons were killed. For this he was tried and sentenced to death, but on the eve of his execution he was respited by orders from London. This enraged the mob, with whom Porteous was very unpopular, with the result that they rose, stormed the Tolbooth in which Porteous was confined, and themselves hanged him in the Grassmarket. For an account of the inquiries made into the affair by the Crown Counsel, see Scott's Heart of Midlothian, Centen. ed., note D....
Existing law
Existing law, this expression under Art. 366(10) means, 'any law, Ordinance, order, bye-law, rule or regulation passed or made before or made before the commencement of this Constitution by any Legislature, authority or person having power to make such law, Ordinance, order, bye-law, rule or regulation', N.B. Jeejeebhoy v. Assistant Collector, AIR 1965 SC 1096: (1965) 1 SCR 636. [Constitution of India, Art. 366(10)]This definition would include only passed by a competent authority as well as rules, bye-laws and regulations made by virtue of statutory power. It would therefore not include administrative orders which are traceables not to any law made by the legislature but derive their force form executive authority and made either for the convenience of the administration or for the benefit or individuals, though the power to make laws as well as these orders was vested in the same authority- the absolute ruler, State of Gujarat v. Vore Fiddali, AIR 1964 SC 1043 (1064). [Constitution o...
Peremptory mandamus
Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be admitted, but a certificate of perfect obedience and due execution. See MANDAMUS; and as to 'peremptory mandamus' in the first instance, to hold a municipal election, see (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 225 (8), repealed by the Local Government Act, 1933....
Court
Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19]Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or any court of small causes.S. 2(*) Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, Raipur Development Authority v. Sarin Construction Company, Raipur, AIR 2006 Chattisgarh 12.The tribunal which is to exercise the jurisdiction for executing the decree in question is 'a court' within the scope of s. 45C of the Banking Companies Act, Ram Narain v. Simla Banking and Industrial Co. Ltd., AIR 1956 S...
Ground-writ
Ground-writ. Before the C.L.P. Act, 1852, a ca. Sa. (capias ad satisfaciendum, (q.v.) or fi. fa. (fieri facias, q.v.) could not be issued into a county different from that in which the venue in the action was laid, without first issuing a writ called a ground-writ into the latter county, and then another writ, which was called a testatum writ, into the former. The 121st s. of that Act abolished this useless process. See EXECUTION....
Order in Council
Order in Council, an order made by the Sovereign 'by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council.' Such orders are now largely used for the purpose of completing the Administrative part of Acts of Parliament. The Government of the day is responsible for them, and they are usually issued in a complete form from the administrative department concerned, the authorization by the Privy Council being a mere formality. As pointed out by Lord Parker in The Zamora (1916) 2 AC 90, neither the King in Council nor any branch of the Executive has power to prescribe or alter the law by Order in Council, save when expressly authorized by statute. See STATUTORY RULES....
praecipe
praecipe also pre·ci·pe [pre-sə-pē, prē-] n [Medieval Latin precipe, legal writ commanding a person to do something or show cause why he or she should not, from Latin praecipe, imperative of praecipere to give rules or precepts, admonish, enjoin] : a written request for an action (as the issuing of a writ of execution) from a party to a clerk of a court or sometimes to a judge [filed a for the writ of scire facias] [shall issue upon of the plaintiff] NOTE: When addressed to a clerk, a praecipe is usually a request for some action that does not require immediate judicial review, such as the issuing of a subpoena or the preparing of a record for appellate review. When addressed to a judge, as for jury instructions in some jurisdictions, a praecipe is similar to a motion. A praecipe originally was a writ issued by the king to a sheriff, telling the sheriff to command someone to do something (as to release land being withheld from another). ...
Decree-holder
Decree-holder, means any person in whose favour a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), s. 2 (3)]...
Judgment-debtor
Judgment-debtor, means any person against whom a decree has been passed or an order capable of execution has been made. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (10)]One against whom a judgment ordering him to pay a sum of money stands unsatisfied. He may, by order of the Court or judge, be orally examined by the judgment creditor as to debts owing to him by third parties, and be compelled to produce books and documents, with a view to attaching any debts due to him [(English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XLV., r. 1]. See ATTACHMENT OF DEBTS....
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