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Specific provision to the contrary
27 contemplates is that a child under the age of sixteen years may be tried by a Chief Judicial Magistrate or any court specially empowered under the Children Act, 1960. It is an enabling provision, and, in
Anticipation
instigated or consented to by a married woman. Property acquired by a married woman who has obtained a judicial separation or protection order while in force is not affected by the restraint, see Jud. Act, 1925, s.
Court-leet
(see Powell onCourts-leet, p. 43), for he is the judge, and presides in the court wholly in a judicial character; the ministerial acts of the court,such as empanelling the jury, are executed by the bedel or bailiff, … on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still
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Void
to be valid until set aside or otherwise held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction', Judicial Review of Administrative Action, De Smith, Woolf and Jowell, 1995 Edn., p. 259-60. Void, denotes 'if an act
Record, Courts of
Record, Courts of, those whose judicial acts and proceedings are enrolled on parchment, for a perpetual memorial and testimony; which rolls are called the … Record, Courts of, those whose judicial acts and proceedings are enrolled on parchment, for a perpetual memorial and testimony; which rolls are called the Records
Breach of trust
extend the powers of trustees in certain cases, and s. 61 ibid., replacing s. 3 of the (English) Judicial Trustees Act, 1896, empowers the Court, if a trustee has acted honestly and reasonably and ought fairly to
Disposition
SCC 643: AIR 1976 SC 1935: (1977) 1 SCR 9. The term 'disposition' has been defined in Stroud's Judicial Dictionary as a devise 'intended to comprehend a mode by which property can pass, whether by act of
Maritime Courts
Maritime Courts. These were formerly the High Court of Admiralty and its Court of appeal, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. But by the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 16, the jurisdiction of the
full faith and credit
full faith and credit : the recognition and enforcement of the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of one state by another see also Article IV of the Constitution in the back matter compare … full faith and credit : the recognition and enforcement of the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of one state by another see also Article IV of the Constitution in the
execution
process of executing [witnessed the of the will] 2 : a putting to death as fulfillment of a judicial death sentence 3 : the process of enforcing a judgment (as against a debtor) ;also : a judicial … execution 1 : the act or process of executing [witnessed the of the will] 2 : a putting to death as fulfillment of
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