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Question, interrogatory; anything inquired. Putting to the question, i.e., torture.The word 'question' meant 'called inquestion as regards its reasonableness or practicability' and could not mean 'challenging its legality', Smt. Abida Begam v. Rent Control and Eviction Officer, AIR 1959 All 675 (680). [U.P. (Temporary) Control of Rent and Eviction Act, (3 of 1947), s. 16]Means anything inquire; an issue to be decided by a court of law. It may be a question of law or question of fact, Oriental Investment Co. Ltd. v. C.I.T., Bombay, AIR 1957 SC 852: (1958) SCR 49: (1958) SCJ 37: (1958) SCA 889: (1958) 1 Andh WR (SC) 18: (1957) 32 ITR 664: (1958) 1 Mad LJ (SC) 18....
Forest Courts
Forest Courts, fallen into absolute desuetude. They were instituted for the government of the royal forests in different parts of the kingdom, and for the punishment of all injuries done to the deer or venison, to the vert or greensward, and to the covert in which such deer were lodged. They consisted of the Courts of attachments, regard, sweinmote, and justice-seat. The Court of attachments, woodmote, or forty days' Court, was held before the verderers of the forest once in every forty days, to inquire into all offences against vert and venison. The Court of regard, or survey of dogs, held every third year, for the expeditation of mastiffs. The Court of sweinmote, held before the verderers thrice in every year, the sweins or freeholders within the forest composing the jury. It inquired into the oppressions and grievances committed by the officers of the forest, and tied presentments certified from the Court of attachments against offences in vert and venison. The Court of justice-seat...
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
De lunatico inquirendo, writ, a process formerly issued to inquire into the condition of a person's mind. Those judges [see (English) Jud. Act, 1873, s. 17; Jud. Act, 1875, s. 7] to whom, by special authority from the sovereign, the custody of idiots and lunatics is entrusted may, upon petition or information, grant a commission in the nature of a writ de lunatico inquirendo (which is analogous to the obsolete de idiota inquirendo), to inquire into the party's state of mind. If the party be found non compos, the care of his person, with a suitable allowance for his maintenance, is usually committed to one of his relations or friends, then called his committee.The proceedings are by way of petition to the Judge in Lunacy under s. 90 of the (English) Lunacy Act, 1890, who either may direct an inquisition with or without a jury, or that an issue be tried before a judge of the High Court or refer the matter to the Master in Lunacy with a view to the appointment of a receiver. Applications ...
notice
notice 1 a : a notification or communication of a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding see also process, service NOTE: The requirements of when, how, and what notice must be given to a person are often prescribed by a statute, rule, or contract. b : awareness of such a fact, claim, demand, or proceeding actual notice 1 : actual awareness or direct notification of a specific fact, demand, claim, or proceeding [had actual notice of the meeting] called also express notice 2 : implied notice in this entry constructive notice : notice that one exercising ordinary care and diligence as a matter of duty would possess and esp. that is imputed by law rather than from fact [held to have constructive notice of the prior recorded deed] compare recording act express notice : actual notice in this entry implied notice : notice that is imputed to a party having knowledge of a fact or circumstance that would cause a reasonable party to inquire further or having possession of a means of know...
Ad quod damnum
Ad quod damnum, a writ which ought to be issued before the Crown grants further liberties, as a fair, market, etc., which may be prejudicial to others; it is addressed to the sheriff, to inquire what damage it may do to grant a fair, market, etc. It is also used to inquire of lands given in mortmain to any house of religion, etc., Termes de la Ley. See 27 Edw. 1, st. 2....
Cross-examination
Cross-examination, the examination of a witness by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such examination; as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the nature of a cross-examination (see VOIR DIRE); and also if one party calls a witness,and he is sworn, the other party may cross-examine him, although the party who has called him put no question at all to him. Some times questions in cross-examination are allowed by the judge after re-examination. See RE-EXAMINATION. And if a witness be called to prove some preliminary and collateral matter only, as the handwriting of a document tendered in evidence, he is a witness in the cause, and may be cross-examined as to any of the issues in the cause.As to theform of the cross-examination, leading questions are allowed, which is not the case in examination in chief.The questions must be relevant to the issue (see infra), but great latitude is allowed, as a question seemingly irrelev...
Questionary
Inquiring asking questions testing...
inquisition
inquisition 1 : the act of inquiring or examining 2 : a judicial or official inquiry or examination usually before a jury ;also : the finding that results from such an inquiry ...
Derivative settlement
Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 85, enacts:-(1) Until a person acquires a settlement of his own or derives a settlement from a husband, that person-(a) if a legitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his father, or if and so long as his father has no settlement, the settlement which his mother had immediately before her marriage to his father, but if after the death of the father the mother acquires a settlement (not being a derivative settlement) shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, that settlement;(b) if an illegitimate child, shall take and follow, up to the age of sixteen, the settlement of his mother;and shall in either case retain that settlement which under the forgoing provisions of the section he had at the age of sixteen.(2) Deals with the settlement of a married woman.(3...
Etiological
Pertaining to or inquiring into causes aeligtiological...
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