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rescission

rescission : the act, process, or fact of rescinding esp. a contract ;specif : the equitable judicial remedy of rescinding a contract in a suit brought by one of the parties compare reformation re·scis·so·ry [ri-si-zə-rē,

Court

is used in s. 9A of the Special Court Act, it is intended to encompass all curial or judicial bodies which have the jurisdiction to decide matters or claims, inter alia, arising out of transactions in securities

Jurisdiction

particular act complained of, but is used in a wide sense as meaning 'generally the authority of the judicial officer to act in the matters', Rachapudi Subba Rao v. Advocate General, AIR 1981 SC 755: (1981) 2

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Tribunal

includes, within its ambit, all adjudicating bodies, provided they are constituted by the State and are invested with judicial, as distinguished from purely administrative or executive functions, Durga Shankar Mehta v. Thakur Raghuraj Singh, AIR 1954 SC … 7th Edn., p. 1512. Means the Maharashtra Sales Tax Tribunal constituted under s. 11. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(31)] Means the Registrar or, as the case may be, the Appellate Board, before which the

Judicial, quasi judicial

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Judicial proceeding

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Trial

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. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is … from an issue. It may equally mean the trial of an election petition or a complaint or an action from beginning to end, H.V. Kamath v. Election Tribunal, AIR 1958 MP 168. Means the entire proceedings before

Discretion

Discretion, the word 'discretion' connotes necessarily an act of a judicial character, as used with reference to discretion exercised judicially, it implies the absence of a hard and fast

Criminal contempt

Act, 1971 (70 of 1971) merely codifies the definition of 'criminal contempt' which had previously been crystallised by judicial decisions. It defines 'criminal contempt' to mean publication of any matter, or the doing of any other act

Judicial

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