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Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English)
Blind Persons Act, 1920 (English). Applies the Old Age Pensions Acts to persons who are so blind as to be unable to perform any work for which eyesight is essential at the age of 50 instead...
Coverture
Coverture, the condition of a woman during marriage, because she was then presumed to be under the influence of her husband, so as to be excused from punishment for crimes committed in his presence, except treason,...
Bill in criminal cases
Bill in criminal cases. Grand Juries were abolished by the (English) Administration of Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 36), from 1st September, 1933, except in certain cases [s. 1 (9)]....
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Balance decree
Balance decree, word decree after the word 'balance' means entitlement to a further sum, N.K. Rajagarhia v. Mahavir Plantation Ltd., (2006) 1 SCC 502. --Includes the amount waived at the trial stage, N.K. Rajagarhia v. Mahavir...
axation of costs
axation of costs. The mode by which certain officers of the various courts allow or disallow the sums claimed by solicitors from their clients, or by the one party in an action from the other. In...
Assisa cadere
Assisa cadere, to be nonsuited, as when there is such a plain and legal insufficiency in an action that the plaintiff cannot successfully proceed any further in it, Fleta, lib. 4, c. 15; Bracton, lib. 2,...
Arrest
Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or...
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in...
Certify
Certify, The word 'certify' in the Article 134 (1) (C) of the Constitution of India has a clear meaning. It requires that when giving the leave to appeal, the High Court must first determine the issue...
Birth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of...
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