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King's proctor, the proctor or solicitor representing the Crown in the Probate and Divorce Court. In proper cases it is his duty to intervene in petitions for dissolution or for declaration of nullity of marriage to defeat collusion or the suppression of material facts. In his official capacity he cannot intervene to show cause against a decree nisi for dissolution of marriage being made absolute without the leave of the Court, Gray v. Gray, (1861) 30 LJP&M 96. In the case of an unsuccessful intervention the King's Proctor may be condemned in costs, Carter v. Carter, 1910 P. 151. See (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 181....
Lex hostilia de furtis
Lex hostilia de furtis, a Roman law which provided that a prosecution for theft might be carried on without the owner's intervention, 4 Steph. Com....
Lien
Lien [answering to the tacita hypotheca of the Civil Law], a right in one man to retain that which is in his possession belonging to another, until certain demands of the person in possession are satisfied. It is neither a jus in re, nor a jus ad rem--i.e., it is not a right of property in the thing itself, or right of action to the thing itself.It is either particular, as a right to retain a thing for some charge or claim growing out of, or connected with, the identical thing; or general, as a right to retain a thing not only for such charges or claims, but also for a general balance of accounts between the parties in respect to other dealings of the like nature.General and particular liens may arise: (1) by an express contract; (2) by an implied contract, resulting from the usage of trade, or the manner of dealing between parties. General lines are not favoured in law, but some judicially recognized general lines are bankers', solicitors', factors', stockbrokers'. See Halsb. L.E., ti...
Plebiscitum
A law enacted by the common people under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate without the intervention of the senate...
Marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce
Marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce, Phrase 'marriage has been dissolved by decree of divorce' in s. 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 means where the relationship of marriage has been brought to an end by intervention of Court by a decree. This decree will include a decree under s. 11, 12 or 13, Lata Kamat v. Vilas AIR 1989 SC 1477 (1481): (1989) 2 SCC 613: (1989) 2 SCR 137. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 15]...
Married women's property
Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...
Plebiscite or Plebiscitum
Plebiscite or Plebiscitum, among the Romans a law enacted by the common people at the request of the tribune or some other plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate; more particularly applied to the law which the people made, when upon some misunderstanding with the senate they retired to the Aventine mount....
Prerogative Writs
Prerogative Writs, processes issued upon extra-ordinary occasions on proper cause shown. They are the writs of procedendo, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and certiorari.Prerogative writs are privileges of an extraordinary kind granted by the court in certain cases, but never as a matter of right; they being a direct intervention of the government with the liberty or property of the subject....
Proceeding
Proceeding, includes administrative proceeding, Nathibai v. Maheshwari Samaj Ramola Trust, AIR 1997 MP 19.It includes execution proceedings also, Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 22.Proceeding, is a term of wide amplitude. It means a prescribed course of action for enforcing or protecting a legal right and further embracing the requisite steps to be taken whether procedural or substantive. Also means forms in which relief is sought before courts of law or before other bodies or authorities determining rights and liabilities and in which actions are brought and defended and the manner of conducting them and the mode of deciding them. All these happenings or events before a labour court or industrial tribunal or any other authority on whom jurisdiction is conferred by law to dispose of contentious matters are understated by the term 'proceeding', Workmen of Bali Singh Bhagwan Singh v. Management, 1968 ILR 2 Punj 371: 1969 Lab IC 581: AIR 1969 Punj 147; K.J. Lingan and A.V. Mahayalam v. Jt. ...
Resceit, or Receit
Resceit, or Receit [fr. receptio, Lat.], an admission or receiving of a third person to plead his right in a cause already commenced between two others persons, 13 Rich. 2, c. 17.Means the admittance of an interested third party to plead in a case between two others; intervention, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1308....
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