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Suppliant, the actor in, or party preferring, a petition of right. See PETITION DE DROIT....
True copy
True copy, a 'true copy' means a copy which is wholly and substantially the same as the original. Where therefore, there are insignificant or minimal mistakes, the court may not take notice thereof, Mithilesh Kumar Pandey v. Baidyanath Yadav, AIR 1984 SC 305 (307): (1984) 2 SCC 1: (1985) 2 SCR 278.The object of serving a 'true copy' of an election petition and the affidavit filed in support of the allegations of corrupt practice on the respondent in the election petition is to enable the respondent to understand the charge against him so that he can effectively meet the same in the written statement and prepare his defence. The requirement is, thus, of substance and not of form, T.M. Jacab v. C. Poulose, (1999) 4 SCC 274 (290): AIR 1999 SC 1359. [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 81(3)]A true copy is a transcript identical to or substitute to the original but no absolutely exact copy. But nobody can by any possibility, misunderstand it to be not a true copy, Shipra v. Shanti L...
Nient comprise
Nient comprise (not contained), an exception taken to a petition, because the thing desired was not contained in the deed or proceeding upon which the petition was founded, Jac. Law Dict....
commitment
commitment 1 : an act of committing: as a : placement in or assignment to a prison or mental hospital [petition for ] compare incompetent, interdiction NOTE: Commitment to a mental health facility is called civil commitment when it is not part of a criminal proceeding. Civil commitment proceedings are initiated by the patient, in the case of voluntary commitment, or by someone (as a family member or government agent) authorized by statute to petition for the patient's involuntary commitment. Some form of a hearing and periodic review is required in involuntary commitment proceedings. A criminal defendant may be committed to a mental hospital as a result of being found incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or incompetent to be sentenced. b : an act of referring a matter to a legislative committee c : a warrant committing someone to a prison 2 : an agreement or promise to do something in the future ;esp : a promise to assume a financial obligation at a fu...
Divorce
Divorce [fr. divortium, Lat.], the dissolution of the marriage contract, grantable (after 31st December, 1937) to either a husband or wife under the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1937 (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 51), amending the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, for (a) adultery, (b) desertion for three years preceding petition, (c) cruelty, (d) incurable unsoundness of mind, and, on the wife's petition, for unnatural offences, subject to the statutory provisions. Petitions may not be presented for three years after marriage.Judicial Separation is grantable on any ground available for divorce, or for non-compliance with a decree for restitution of conjugal rights or any former ground for divorce a mensa et thoro (q.v.); divorce may be obtained on proof of facts which have founded a judicial separation or an order under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, which order may be made for adultery as well as other grounds. See JUDICIAL SEPARATION.Additional grounds for a decree of nullity of marri...
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 ...
Cruelty
Cruelty, it is contemplated as a conduct of such type which endangers the living of the petitioner with the respondent. Cruelty consists of acts which are dangerous to life, limb or health. Cruelty for the purpose of the Act means where one spouse has so treated the other and manifested such feelings towards her or him as to have inflicted bodily injury , or to have caused reasonable apprehension of bodily injury, suffering or to have injured health. Cruelty may be physical or mental. Mental cruelty is the conduct of other spouse which causes mental suffering or fear to the matrimonial life of the other, Savitri Pandey v. Prem Chandra Pandey, AIR 2002 SC 591 (595): (2002) 2 SCC 73. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 13(1)(ia)]Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security would also constitute cruelty, Shobha Rani v. Modhukar Reddi, (1988) 1 SCC 105: AIR 1988 SC 121 (...
Criminal conversation
Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 59; but s. 33 [replaced by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 189] gives a husband the right to claim damages from adulterer, either in a petition for dissolution of marriage or for judicial separation,or in a petition limited to that object; and the damages claimed must be assessed by a jury upon the same principles and rules as were formerly applicable to the trial of actions for criminal conversation, and the Court may direct that they be settled for the benefit of the children of the marriage or as a provision for the wife...
Appropriate proceedings
Appropriate proceedings, Art. 32(1) guarantees a right to move by 'appropriate proceedings': there is therefore in the Article itself limitation upon the exercise of the right. Appropriate proceedings would include the procedure relating to form, conditions of lodgement of petition compliance with all reasonable directions imposed which would conduce to the smooth conduct of proceeding in this Court. Power to make rules for practice and procedure of this Court read with the guarantee under Art. 32(1) to move by appropriate proceedings implies the power to impose procedural restrictions conducive to the orderly progress of the petition for relief for breach of a fundamental right, Prem Chand Garg v. Excise Commissioner Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 986 (1005): 1963 Supp (1) SCR 885. [Constitution of India, Art. 32(1)]Article 32 speaks generally of 'appropriate proceedings'. It should be a proceeding which can appropriately lead to an adjudication of the claim made for the enforcement of a ...
Act of Bankruptcy
Act of Bankruptcy, an act, the commission of which by a debtor renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt if the petition is presented within three months thereafter.Under s. 1 of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59), any one of the following acts of a debtor is an act of bankruptcy:-(a) Having made an assignment of his property in trust for his creditors generally.(b) Having made a fradulent conveyance, gift, delivery, or transfer of his property, or of any part thereof.(c) Having made a conveyance amounting to a 'fradulent preference.'(d) Having, with intent to defeat or delay his creditors, departed out of England, or being out of England, remained out of England; or having absented himself; or begun to keep house.(e) If execution against him has been levied by seizure of his goods under process in any Court or in any civil proceeding in the High Court, and the goods have been either sold or held by the sheriff for 21 days:Provided that where an interpleader su...
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