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Trial

Chanden Kumar Sarkar, AIR 2003 SC 3701. Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op.

Donis conditionalibus, Statute de

heirs the lands should revert, was construed to give the donee a conditional fee, which enabled him, after issue begotten, to alien the land, and thereby to disinherit the issue and to deprive the donor of his

Wills

from this rule of lapse the thirty-third s. makes an important exception for legacies to children or other issue of the testator who may have died leaving issue living at the testator's death: in such a case

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Burden of proof

Burden of proof [onus probandi, Lat.]. the most prominent canon of evidence is, that the point in issue is to be proved by the party who asserts the affirmative, according to the civil law maxims, Ei

join

may be made a defendant, or…an involuntary plaintiff "Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 19(a)"] join·able adj join issue or join the issue 1 : to accept, fix on, or clearly define an issue as the subject

warrant

person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified

Similiter

Similiter [Lat.] (in like manner). Formerely when an issue of fact was tendered, the words were as follows: 'and of this the defendant puts himself upon the

Insurance

different offices. To prevent frauds by insuring the full value in various offices, there is, in the proposals issued, an article requiring notice of any other insurance upon the same houses or goods, that the same may

Evidence

Evidence, proof, either written or unwritten, of allegations in issue between parties. Something (including testimony, documents and tangible objects) that tends to prove or disprove the existence of

bond

b : one who acts as a surety 2 : an interest-bearing document giving evidence of a debt issued by a government body or corporation that is sometimes secured by a lien on property and is often

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