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Principality

Sovereignty supreme power hence superiority predominance high or the highest station

1950), s. 19] Court, means the principle civil court of original jurisdiction in a district and including the High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject … as such are subject to the overriding jurisdiction of this court under Art. 136 of the Constitution. Their powers are derived from the statute that creates them and they have to function within the limits imposed there

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Jurisdiction

Tribunals Act, 1985 are an alternative insti-tutional mechanism or authority, designed to be not less effective than the High Court, consistently with the amended constitutional scheme but at the same time not to negate judicial review jurisdiction … M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697. Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally,

County Courts

thinks fit; and the s. gives an appeal from the County Court to the High Court and a power of removal to the High Court. By (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. … such corpoation or company as therein mentioned, may apply in a summary way to any judge of the High Court or (at the option of the applicant irrespectively of the value of the property in dispute) to

Court of record

transferred, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 747, p. 405. Members of the State judiciary below the High Court are subordinate to the High Court and the control over the district courts and court subordinate thereto … Court of record, a court of record envelops all such powers whose acts and proceedings are to be enrolled in a perpetual memorial and testimony. A court of record

Admiralty

Department of State which presides over the naval forces of the kingdom. The normal head is the 'Lord High Admiral,' but in practice the functions of the Office are discharged by several Commissioners, of whom one is … always selected from Officers of the Service, two Civil Lords and a Secretary. Means a court that exercises jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries or offences. The federal courts are so-called when exercising their admiralty jurisdiction,

Supreme Court of Judicature

juris-diction to hear, with a few specified exceptions, appeals from any judgment or order of the High Court; power was given to each division to administer law and equity concurrently, with preference for the rules of equity, … Act, 1925, s. 1, there shall be a Supreme Court of Judicature in England consisting of His Majesty's High Court of Justice (referred to as the High Court), and His Majesty's Court of Appeal (referred to as

Prize Court

and is governed by rules not applying to the Instance Court of the Admiralty (now part of the High Court), which is a mere civil tribunal. The old Court of Admiralty had in fact from very ancient … The old Court of Admiralty had in fact from very ancient times two separate and distinct jurisdictions--the Instance Jurisdiction and the Prize Jurisdiction, though the real origin of the latter is wrapped in obscurity. When the High

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