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Acting Chief Justice
Acting Chief Justice, A judge appointed under article 126 of the constitution to perform the duties of the Chief Justice of India. [High
Actual service
Actual service, 'Actual service' includes-- (i) time spent by a Judge on duty as a Judge, or in the performance of such other functions as he may, at the
Arbitration
Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to
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Assessors
another: persons appointed to ascertain and fix the value of taxes, rates, etc. Also persons sometimes associated with judges of courts to advise and direct the decisions of such judges. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s.
Bar, trial at
the South African Republic after an outbreak of war in that country. In civil matters trials before more judges than one may be held before Divisional Courts, if the Court think them unsuited for trial by a
Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, and five Lords Justices. The Judges may not sit on appeal from judgments to which they themselves were parties. A puisne judge is occasionally
Camera
Camera [fr. kam'pa, Gk.], the judge's chamber in Serjeants' Inn, Ken. Glos. --means room, chamber, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The judge's private room
Contempt of court
are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without such gross insolence or direct opposition, plainly tend to create a
Copyhold
the copyholders, who form the homage and transact the necessary business, the lord or his steward presiding as judge. Although these courts are essentially distinct, yet they are usually held at the same time, and the same
Cross-examination
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,
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