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Apology
operate as a universal panacea, but it is intended to be evidence of real contriteness, M.Y. Shareef v. Judges of Nagpur High Court, AIR 1955 SC 1923. (Contempt of Court Act, 1952, s. 4) --By the (English)
Apparator, or Apparitor
Apparator, or Apparitor, a messenger who cites and arrests offenders, and executes the decrees of the judges of the Spiritual Courts. He holds his office at the pleasure of Parliament, and does not possess a
Appeal
Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. G., pp. 268-269. In India, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court from any judgment, decree or final order of a High Court whether in a civil, criminal or other proceeding, but it
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Appellate Jurisdiction Acts, 1876, 1887, 1913 and 1929
House of Lords as a Court of Appeal. An appeal lies to the House of Lords from any judgment or order of the Court of Appeal in England, and also from certain Courts in Scotland and Ireland.
Application
Application, a request, a motion to a Court or judge; the disposal of a thing. A prayer made to an authority for relief to set aside an order
Approver, or Prover
vulgarly called 'King's evidence.' This testimony must necessarily be of an unsatisfactory nature, and the practice is for Judges to leave it to juries with the direction not to believe it unless corroborated in some material particular
Assise of novel disseisin
to recover property of which a party had been disseised, i.e., dispossessed, after the last circuit of the judges. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27.
Arbiter
Arbiter, a private extra-judicial judge; an arbitrator or referee; a witness. See ARBITRATOR.
Arbitrary punishment
Arbitrary punishment, such as is left entirely to the discretion of a judge.
Arrest of judgment
Arrest of judgment, Formerly an unsuccessful defendant might move that the judgment for the plaintiff be arrested or withheld, notwithstanding a
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