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Action
conduct, something done; also the form prescribed by Law for the recovery of one's due, or the lawful demand of one's right. Bracton (Bk. 3, cap. 1) defines it:-Actio nihil aliud est quam jus prosequendi in judicio … a court of justice for that which is due to some one.) Actions are divided into criminal and civil: criminal actions are more properly called prosecutions, and perhaps actions penal, to recover some penalty under statute, are
Debt
Funeral expenses, which in the case of an insolvent estate must be strictly reasonable and necessary only, the executor or administrator being personally liable for any excessive expenditure. What is a strictly reasonable and necessary sum varies … Debt [fr. debitum, Lat.], a sum of money due from one person to another. An action of debt lay … or assigned, or whether payable under a decree or order of any civil court or any arbitration award or otherwise or under a mortgage and
Possession
and can exercise it, Chhedi Ram v. Mahngoo Tiwari, 1969 All WR (HC) 230. Possession, in common parlance denoted to occupy, to have or hold as owner, to obtain, to maintain, Krishna Prasad Jaiswal v. Kanti Gupta, … Soorajmal v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (1992) Cr LJ 3206. Possession, need not be actual, physical possession or personal occupation, but may be possession in law. 'Possession' means 'the state of owning or having in one's hands
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hearing
of relative formality at which evidence and arguments may be presented on the matter at issue to be decided by a person or body having decision-making authority compare trial NOTE: The purpose of a hearing is to
Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue. Trial by jury may be traced to the … on and proposed amendments of the law, see Erle's Jury Laws and their Amendment, published by Stevens & Sons in 1882. The procedure relating to trials by jury was amended by (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) … than seven or more than eleven. Juries in all criminal trials and civil trials in the superior courts, and in writs of inquiry, consist of
order
order final order : an order of a court or quasi-judicial tribunal which leaves nothing further to be determined or accomplished in that forum except execution of the judgment and from which an appeal will lie gag … debtor to turn over assets to a judgment creditor [turnover order in aid of execution "California Code of Civil Procedure"] c : a command issued by a military superior 4 a : a direction regarding the party
Hindu
controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great … sewage and half-civilised people, the cultural Dravidians and the Vedic Aryans were all Hindus as they were the sons of the same mother. The history of Indian thought emphatically brings out the fact that the development of … forms of worship, strange gods, and diver-gent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine complement each
Rent
v. Arthur, (1907) 1 KB 10; and see Woodfall, L. & T. Rent in arrear due by the executors of a tenant was, before 32 & 33 Vict. c. 46, of a higher degree than simple contract … owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion in the land. It is usually created by deed or will, and was accompanied by express powers of distress and entry. Small rent-charges were frequently granted for … the lessor for demise of the property to him, D.K. Trivedi & Sons v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1986 SC 1323: (1986) Supp SCC 20: … of the term of the lease. It would be different if the claim is made by the Municipality at an enhanced rate which cannot be
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only … It means the statement given by the Judge on the grounds of a decree or order. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 2 (9)] That by the word 'judgment' is meant an order in a trial terminating
Uses
(10) At one time a use was not assets for the payment of debts by the heir or executor. There appears to have been a distinction between a use and a trust, even before the Statute of … were stumbling-blocks to the complicated wants of an enterprising people. Hence ingenuity was sharpened to hit upon a device which should set at nought the rigidity of existing law and formalities. A system was found by the … was found by the monastic jurists upon a model furnished by the Civil Law, which, by a nice adaptation, evaded, without overturning, the Common Law.
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