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Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General
Judge Advocate, Judge Advocate-General. The Judge Advocate-General is an officer appointed by letters-patent under the Great Seal. He is under the orders of the Secretary of State for War to whom he acts as legal adviser. One of his functions is to review Court-martial proceedings. All general military courts-martial are attended by a judge advocate acting by deputation, either special or general, under the hand and seal of the judge advocate-general; or by a person appointed by general officers commanding the forces abroad, to execute the office of judge advocate. The duties of an officiating judge advocate at a Court-martial are to superintend the proceedings, to make a minute of the proceedings, and to advise the Court on points of law, of custom, and of form, and so far to assist the prisoner as to elicit a full statement of the facts material to the defence. The proceedings of general courts-martial held at home are trans-mitted by the officiating judge advocate to the judge advoc...
Court and Judge
Court and Judge, a 'court' is an agency created by the sovereign for the purpose of administering justice. It is a place where justice is judicially administered. It is a legal entity. It is a Tribunal presided over by one or more Judges on whom are conferred certain judicial powers for administering justice in accordance with law. When a Judge takes his seat in court, the court is said to have assembled for administering justice. Thus the word 'Court, is a generic term and embraces a judge but the vice versa is not true. While the words 'court' and 'Judge' are frequently used interchangeably they are not stricto sensu synonymous for the simple reason that a Judge by himself does not constitute a court being only an essential part of the Court, Supreme Court Legal Aid Committee v. Union of India, (1994) 6 SCC 731 (745...
District Judge
District Judge, includes, among other, an additional district judge, State of West Bengal v. Nripendranath Bagchi AIR 1966 SC 447: (1966) 1 SCR 771.See State of Assam v. Kuseswar Saikia, AIR 1970 SC 1616.District Judge shall mean the Judge of a principal Civil Court of original Jurisdiction, but shall not include a High Court in the exercise of its ordinary or extraordinary original civil jurisdiction. [General Clauses Act, 1897, s. 3(17)]--Means the Judge of a principal civil court of original jurisdiction. [Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925), s. 2(bb)]...
Notes, Judge's
Notes, Judge's. a judge usually takes notes of the viva voce evidence given during the trial of an action, and these are in practice always referred to on appeal, although they cannot be obtained as a matter of right. In criminal trials the judge must, it seems, take such notes and furnish them, in cases of appeal, to the Court of Criminal Appeal [(English) Court of Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, ss. 8 and 9(a); and Criminal Appeal Rules, 1908, r. 14]. At the trial or hearing of any action or matter in the county court in which there is a right of appeal, the judge, at the request of either party, shall make a note of any question of law raised, and of the facts in evidence relating thereto, and of his decision thereon, and of his decision of the action or matter. Any party to the action is entitled to a copy at his own expense [(English) County Courts Act, 1888, ss. 120 and 121]. See now County Courts Act, 1934 (c. 53), ss. 105, 108; and McGrah v. Cartwright (1889) 23 QBD 3, as to the dut...
judge advocate
judge advocate pl: judge advocates 1 : an officer serving under the Judge Advocate General 2 : an officer charged with administering military justice (as by acting as legal counsel or conducting an appellate review) ...
special judge
special judge : a judge appointed to serve when a sitting judge is unable or unqualified to serve ...
Judge-shopping
Judge-shopping, means the practice of filing several lawsuits asserting the same claims in a court or a district with multiple judges with the hope of having one of the lawsuits assigned to a favourable judge and to non suit or voluntarily dismiss the others, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 846....
Judge made law
Judge made law, there is in fact no such thing as Judge-made law, for the judges to not make the law, they frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable, State of Gujarat v. Gordhandas Keshavji Gandhi, AIR 1962 Guj 128....
Honour, Judge, His
Honour, Judge, His, is the official designation of a county Court judge...
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