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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 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...
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)]...
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 ...
High Court Legal Services Committee
High Court Legal Services Committee, 'High Court Legal Services Committee' means a High Court Legal Services Committee constituted under s. 8A. [Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2(1) (bb)]...
high court
high court 1 : a court of last resort in the U.S. ;esp : supreme court 2 cap : high court of justice ...
High Court of Justice
High Court of Justice :a part of the Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales that includes the Chancery, Family, and King's Bench or Queen's Bench divisions called also High Court ...
If the High Court is of opinion
If the High Court is of opinion, the phrase 'if the High Court is of opinion' used by the legislature in the opening part of s. 100(1) of the Representation of Pepoles Act qualifies not only clause (a), but also clause (d) of the sub-section, Vidya Charan Shukla v. Purshottam Lal Kaushik, AIR 1981 SC 547: (1981) 2 SCC 84: (1981) 2 SCR 637....
Justice, High Court of
Justice, High Court of. See HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE....
Status quo as in the High Court
Status quo as in the High Court, the expression 'status quo' is undoubtedly a term of ambiguity and at times gives rise to doubt and difficulty. According to the ordinary legal connotation, the term 'status quo' implies the existing state of things at any given point of time. The qualifying words 'as in the High Court' clearly limit the scope and effect of the status quo order, Bharat Coking Coal Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1988 SC 127 (129): 1987 Supp SCC 394....
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