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Higher authority
Matched in: Term Higher authority
Appeal
of India, Article 136]. Means a proceeding undertaken to have a decision reconsidered by bringing it to a higher authority, especially the submission of a lower court's or agency's decision to a higher court for review and possible
University
for the purpose of learning with various endowments and privileges, AIR 1993 Del 239 (242). University, institution of higher education usually comprising a liberal arts and sciences college and graduate and professional school and having the authority
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Sovereignty
to which habitual obedience is rendered by the mass of men. That superior must not itself obey any higher authority. When we discover the authority which gives commands habitually obeyed, itself not receiving them, we have the sovereign
above
same page or on a preceding page [the discussion ] 2 : higher or superior in rank or authority [the court ] above the line : in calculations that yield adjusted gross income or profit adj : … above 1 : higher on the same page or on a preceding page [the discussion ] 2 : higher or superior in
Stare decisis
conduct of affairs, or in legal procedure or in other ways, will generally be followed by courts of higher authority than the court establishing the rule, even though the court before whom the matter arises afterwards might not
superior court
court often cap S&C 1 : a court of general jurisdiction intermediate between the inferior courts and the higher appellate courts 2 : a court having original jurisdiction and conducting jury trials … superior court often cap S&C 1 : a court of general jurisdiction intermediate between the inferior courts and the higher appellate courts 2 : a court having original jurisdiction and
Revoke
cancellation by the same power which originally acted and not to setting aside of an original order by higher forum of power or jurisdiction. It does not mean repudiation, Corpus Juris Secundum, 1952 Edn., Vol. 77. Means … one having the right annuls something pre-viously done, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Means the recall of some authority or thing granted or a destroying or making void of some deed that had existence until the act
overrule
[the objection was overruled] compare sustain 2 a : to rule against upon review by virtue of a higher authority : set aside reverse [the appeals court overruled the trial court's decision] b : to set aside as
hand up
hand up : to deliver (an indictment) to a judge or higher judicial authority
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