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Bishop

ecclesiastical law, and vicar-general. As to the resignation of archbishops and bishops when incapacitated by age or other infirmities, and appointment of bishop co-adjuctor where bishop incapacitated by reason of permanent mental infirmity, see (English) Bishops Resignation

Coadjutor

Coadjutor, an assistant, helper, or ally: particularly a person appointed to assist a bishop, who from age of infirmity is unable to perform his duty: and see SUFFRAGAN.

County Courts

arbitrators for any remuneration to themselves,and are incapable of being elected as M.P.'s (s. 6), and when permanently infirm and desirous of resigning may receive pensions (s. 9). S. 7 reproducing the (English) County Court Judges (Retirement

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Damages

case be tried without a jury, payable to a successful plaintiff. Courts of Equity long laboured under the infirmity of not being able to award damages by way of compensation for a fraud, or for the non-performance

Legally and Justly due

Court of Judicial Tribunal, will find recognition on the basis that it does not suffer from any legal infirmity, India and General Investment Trust Ltd. v. Purna Chandra Mardaraj Rao, AIR 1967 SC 1251 (1256): (1967) 2

Discovery

the enforcement of a right, the repelling of an unjust demand, or the redress of a wrong; an infirmity which the equity judges cured by compelling such a party to disclose the fact, or discover the document,

Essoin, Essoigne, Assoign

and answer to an action, or to perform suit to a Court-baron, etc., by reason of sickness or infirmity or other just cause of absence. The causes of excuse called essoins allowed in the King's Court were

Health

a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, CESC Ltd. v. Subhash Chandra Bose, AIR 1992 SC 573: (1992) 1 SCC 441.

Judge

The appointment is by the sovereign by letters-patent. Fifteen years' service as a judge, or dis-ability by permanent infirmity, entitles to a pension by (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 14, replacing s. 14 of the Act of

Person of unsound mind

of unsound mind, who are proved to the satisfaction of the judge in lunacy to be, through mental infirmity arising from disease or age, incapable of managing their affairs. The powers and duties of the Commissioners in

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