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High bailiffs

High bailiffs, officers appointed under s. 33 of the County Courts Act, 1888, by the judge of each county Court, to attend every sitting of the Court, and by themselves, or the bailiffs appointed to assist them, to serve all summonses and orders, and execute all warrants, precepts, and writs of the Court except as in the Act provided. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 189, references to high bailiff are to be construed as references to the registrar where the office of high bailiff has been vacated....


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...


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...


high water

Pertaining to water at its highest achieved level of or pertaining to high water as the high water marks on the walls after a flood...


Justice, High Court of

Justice, High Court of. See HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE....


Lord High Steward

Lord High Steward. See HIGH STEWARD....


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....


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....


Highly

Highly, the word 'highly' should normally connote as if the delay was inordinate, Improvement Trust v. Land Acquisition Tribunal, 1995 Supp (3) SCC 652....



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