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former adjudication
Matched in: Term former adjudication
res judicata
and includes the barring of relitigation of settled matters under merger, bar, collateral estoppel, and direct estoppel : former adjudication compare bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, merger b : a specific doctrine that precludes relitigation of claims
estoppel
previous action ;esp : collateral estoppel in this entry called also estoppel by verdict issue preclusion see also former adjudication compare merger, res judicata b : the affirmative defense of estoppel by estoppel : arising from the operation
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exchequer
and management of the royal revenue and later for the adjudication of revenue cases 2 cap : a former superior court having law and equity jurisdiction in England and Wales over primarily revenue cases and now merged
Decree
of a Court disposing of a case (accent on first syllable). Decree means a formal expression of an adjudication which the Court conclusively and finally determines the rights of the parties with regard to all or any … a Court of Equity. But by the (English) Judicature Acts, 1873 and 1875, the expression judgment, which was formerly used only in Courts of Common Law, is adopted in reference to the decisions of all Divisions of
privity
previous action in which the plaintiff did not participate but which is deemed to have resulted in an adjudication of the plaintiff's rights. 3 : private or joint knowledge of a private matter ;esp : awareness (as … to a contract or transaction (as a purchase) [ of contract] see also horizontal privity, vertical privity NOTE: Formerly a suit for breach of warranty or negligence arising from a product could only be brought by a
Certiorari
The writ may be granted either at the instance of the prosecutor or the defendant. A prosecutor was formerly entitled to a writ of certiorari as a matter of right, but a defendant could only obtain it … duty to act judicially act in excess of their legal authority; it does not lie to remove or adjudicative upon the order which is of an administrative or ministerial nature, Sadhu Singh v. Delhi Administration, (1966) 1
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 to the Common Law Courts, the term … Chandra Sen v. United Commercial Bank, AIR 1982 Cal 555. An end to the suit or proceeding, the adjudication is indisputably a 'judgment' within the meaning of this clause, Begum Aftab Zamani v. Shri Lal Chand Khanna,
Rent
certify the amount of money to be paid for the redemption, and such rents if payable out of former copyholds are manorial incidents to which the enfranchised land is liable until extinguished under the (English) L.P. Act, … the Municipality at an enhanced rate which cannot be said to be due unless determined by process of adjudication, Gangaram v. Municipal Counsel Nagar Palika, Neemuch, AIR 1992 MP 303. [M.P. Municipalities Act, 1961, s. 164(1)(c)]
Course of public justice
although the risk of an innocent person being subjected to wrongful arrest might be the greater in the former instance, it remained wherever the offence was descried with sufficient particularity to justify a significant police investigation, R. … Course of public justice, particularly in the criminal sphere, was not confined to the process of adjudication and included functions of the police such as the investigation of offence and the arrest of suspected persons,
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