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Fair trial

of fair trial. The fair trial for a criminal offence consists not only in technical observance of the frame and forms of law, but also in recognition and just application on its principles in substance, to find

Maiden

loaded above with lead. At the time of execution it was pulled up to the top of a frame about eight feet high, with a grove on each side for it to slide in. the prisoner'' neck

Machine

ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change

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Legislative power

Legislative power, power to frame or enact law for the governance of the country by the supreme body exercising the sovereign power is

Labourers' dwellings

and 45 & 46 Vict.c. 54. Under this Act a town council or other urban sanitary authority might frame schemes for the improvement of a body of houses, courts, or alleys, within particular areas. The schemes required

Interpretation and construction

of the word 'construction' the judges have set themselves in this branch of the law to try to frame the law as they would like to have it, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Hashmatunnisa Begum, AIR 1989

Gallows

over either one or two posts, from which male factors are hanged. See EXECUTION OF CRIMINALS. A wooden frame consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam from which condemned criminals are hanged by rope, Black's Law

First hearing

to apply its mind to determine the points in controversy between the parties to the suit and to frame issues, if necessary, Advaita Nand v. Judge, Small Cause Court, (1995) 3 SCC 407 (410); see also Sudershan

Proa

canoe is long and narrow and is kept from overturning by a cigar shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward It has been called the flying proa and is the swiftest sailing craft

Charity Commissioners

management and control over charities, including power to authorize sales, exchanges, leases and mortgages of charity property; to frame new schemes where the original terms of the trust can no longer be literally or beneficially complied with;

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