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High Court, means any court which is deemed for the purposes of this Constitution to be a High Court for any State and includes--(a) any Court in the territory of India constituted or reconstituted under this Constitution as a High Court, and(b) any other Court in the territory of India which may be declared by Parliament by law to be a High Court for all or any of the purposes of this Con-stitution. [Constitution of India, Article 366(14)]The High Court in s. 10F of the Companies Act means the High Court having jurisdiction in relation to the place at which the registered office of the company concerned is situate as indicated by s. 2(11) read with s. 10(1) (a) of the Act, Strideuell Leathers (P) Ltd. v. Bhankepur Simbhaoli Beverages Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 158 (165): (1994) 1 SCC 34. (Companies Act, 1956, s. 10F)Every High Court shall be a Court of record meaning thereby all the original record of the Court will be preserved by the said Court and it shall have all the powers of such a supe...
High Steward, Court of the Lord
High Steward, Court of the Lord, a tribunal instituted for the trial of peers or peeresses indicted for treason or felony, or for misprision of either, but not for any other offence. The office of Lord High Steward is very ancient, and was formerly hereditary, or held for life, or dum bene se gesserit; but it has been for many centuries granted pro hac vice only, and always to a lord of Parliament. When, therefore, such an indictment is found by a grand jury of freeholders in the King's Bench, or at the assizes before a judge of oyer and terminer, it is removed by a writ of certiorari into the Court of the Lord High Steward, which alone has power to determine it.The sovereign, in case a peer be indicted for treason, felony, or misprision, appoints a Lord High Ste-ward pro vice, by commission under the Great Seal, which, reciting the indictment so found, gives him power to receive and try it secundum legem et consuetudinem Angli'. When the indictment is regularly removed by certiorari, ...
High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice. The (English) Judicature Act, 1925, has replaced with amendments the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). The earlier Act abolished the former Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and in their place established a Supreme Court of Judicature (see that title), consisting of the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal. The High Court is now a Superior Court of Record, and has vested in it, by s. 16 of the Act of 1873, amended by ss. 9 and 33 of the Judicature Act, 1875, the jurisdiction formerly exercised by the following Courts, viz.: '(1) The High Court of Chancery; (2) The Court of King's Bench; (3) The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; (4) The Court of Exchequer; (5) The Court of Admiralty; (6) The Court of Probate; (7) The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes; (8) The Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster; (9) The Court of Pleas at Durham; (10) The Courts created by Commissions of Assize, of Oyer and Terminer, and of Gaol Delivery, or any such C...
High energy physics
the branch of particle physics which studies collisions of particles accelerated to such high energy that new fundamental particles are generated in the process The creation of new particles of very high energy is required to permit the study of the most fundamental relations between forms of matter so as to understand the fundamental nature of matter The high energies also reproduce the high temperature conditions at the earliest phase of the big bang allowing generation of some data relevant to understanding the nature and evolution of the universe...
Court immediately below and Court subordinate to the High Court
Court immediately below and Court subordinate to the High Court, the expressions 'a Court immediately below' and 'a Court subordinate to the High Court' had different meanings, and were therefore not one and the same. The test for determining whether an aggrieved party has a right to appeal, other conditions being fulfilled, is not whether the judgment is of a Court subordinate to the High Court but whether the judgment is of a court immediately below and that a single Judge of the High Court hearing a proceeding either as a Court of original jurisdiction or in exercise of appellate jurisdiction is a Court immediately below the Division Bench which hears an appeal against his judgment under the relevant clause of the Letters Patent, A. Rangaswamy Iyengar v. Pattamal, AIR 1971 SC 658 (659). [Constitution of India, Art. 133(1)(a)]...
Highness
Highness, a title of honour given to princes. The kings of England, before the time of James I., were not usually saluted with the title of Majesty, but with that of Highness. By Letters Patent of 11th December, 1917, it was provided that the children of a sovereign, and the children of the sons of a sovereign, and the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales sall bear the title of Royal Highness and of Prince or Princess. The children of crowned heads generally receive the style of Highness; as also certain rulers of Indian independent states....
High church
Of or pertaining to or favoring the party called the High Church or their doctrines or policy See High Church under High a...
Highly
In a high manner or to a high degree very much as highly esteemed...
high voltage
having operating on or powered by high voltage as a high voltage generator a high voltage line...
Divisions of the High Court
Divisions of the High Court (see new Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 1-5). The High Court of Justice, crated by the Judicature Act, 1873 (36 & 37 Vict. c. 66). was by s. 31 of that Act, for the more convenient despatch of business, divided into five Divisions, which were called the Chancery, the Queen's Bench, the Common Pleas, the Exchequer, and the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Divisions, the judges of these Divisions being for the most part those who sat in the courts whose jurisdiction is transferred to the High Court (ss. 5, 16); but s. 32 of the same Act gave the Sovereign in Council power to reduce or increase the number of Divisions or the number of judges attached to each Division; and an Order in Council under this section which came into force on the 26th February, 1881, united in one 'Queen's Bench Division' (since the accession of King Edward the Seventh styled the' King's bench Division') the judges attached to the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions; so that (see Judicature ...
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