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Forerunner

A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others a harbinger a sign foreshowing something a prognostic as the forerunner of a fever...

A prefix denoting priority of time place or rank as precede to go before precursor a forerunner prefix to fix or place before preeumlminent eminent before or above others Pre is sometimes used intensively as in prepotent very potent...

Precursor

One who or that which precedes an event and indicates its approach a forerunner a harbinger...

Prodrome

A forerunner a precursor...

Inquiry trial

Inquiry trial, The word 'inquiry' is defined in s. 2(g) of the Code as 'every inquiry, other than a trial, conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or court.' The trial is distinct from inquiry and inquiry must always be a forerunner to the trial, Moly v. State of Karnataka, (2004) 4 SCC 584 (587). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 2(g)]...

Messenger

Messenger, one who carries an errand; a forerunner.Messengers are certain officers employed under the direction of the Secretaries of State, and always ready to be sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance of the Common Law, and, perhaps, were not properly to be divulged in the ordinary course of justice, 2 Hawk. P.C., c. xvi., s. 9.There are other officers distinguished by this appellation, as the messengers of the Lord Chancellor, Privy Council, and Exchequer, etc. Also, in bankruptcy, persons officially appointed who seize a bankrupt's property. The office of messenger of the Great Seal was abolished by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 81...

Trial

Trial, does not exclude a proceeding relating to the delivery of judgment, Inayat v. Rex, AIR 1950 All 369: 1950 All LJ 127: 1950 All WR 245.Trial, is not necessary that the trial must be a full-dressed or a jury trial or a trial which concludes only after taking evidence of the parties in support of their respective cases, Dipak Chandra Ruhidas v. Chanden Kumar Sarkar, AIR 2003 SC 3701.Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69.Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial examination of issues between the parties, whether they are of law or of fact, Sajjan Singh v. Bhagilal Pandya, AIR 1958 Raj 307.Trial, is understood as referring to the stage of the proceeding in a criminal case after the charge had been fr...

Trial, inquiry

Trial, inquiry, the word 'trial' is not defined either in the Code or in the Act it is clearly distinguishable from inquiry. The word 'inquiry' is defined in s. 2(g) of the Code as 'every inquiry, other than a trial, conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or court.' So the trial is distinct from inquiry and inquiry must always be a forerunner to the trial, Moly v. State of Kerala, (2004) 4 SCC 584 (587). [Criminal PC, 1973, s. 2(g)]...

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