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Reduction in rank

of that rank. If, however, he has no right to the particular rank, his reduction from an officiating higher rank to his substantive lower rank will not ordinarily be a punishment (AIR 1958 SC 36 referred); Shitla

Promotion

to another post which satisfies either of the two conditions namely that the new post is in a higher category of the same service or that the new post carries higher grade in the same service or

appeal

to call, accuse, appeal, from Latin appellare] : a proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for review of a lower court's judgment for the purpose of convincing the higher court that the

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Appeal

Appeal [fr. appellatio, Lat.; appeller, Fr.]. the judicial examination of the decision by a higher Court of the decision of an inferior Court. Thus there is an appeal from the High Court to

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

verdict

jury is finished with deliberations may interfere with the deliberative process; having a jury achieve unanimity on a higher charge first discourages compromise verdicts on lesser included offenses. In some jurisdictions it has been considered proper to

Increment

Increment, an increment is in the same scale while a promotion is from one scale to a higher scale. A promotion from a lower grade to a higher grade, though both the grades may be in

Super-tax

tax is charged at a standard rte and persons whose income exceeds a stated amount pay at a higher rate in respect of the excess. The higher tax on the excess is treated as a deferred instalment

Second offence

he shall be punishable for the first offence with a certain penalty, for the second offence with a higher penalty and for the third a still higher penalty, Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC

Scale of Costs

of costs for the Supreme Court was provided, and these Rules were reenacted in 1883. There is a higher and a lower scale, applicable respectively to the matters specified in the Rules; but costs on the higher

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