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Holding a judical office

Holding a judical office, the expression 'holding a judical office' signifies more than discharge of judicial functions while holding some other office. The phrase postulates that there is an office and that office is … that office is primarily judicial, Statesmen (P) Ltd. v. H.R. Deb, AIR 1968 SC 1495 (1500). [Industrial Disputes Act 1947, s. 7(3) (d)]

Matrimonial causes

by 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85. 'Matrimonial cause' now means any action for divorce, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, jactitation of marriage or restitution of conjugal rights. (Judicature Act,1925, s. 225) See CONJUGAL RIGHTS; DIVORCE; NULLITY;

Church Discipline Act (English)

prima facie case against him, by inquiry before the bishop with assessors, with an ultimate appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Bishop of Lincoln v. Wakefield, 1921 AC 813. The Act is repealed and

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Invention

that a patentable invention, apart from being a new manufacture, must also be useful. The foundation for this judicial interpretation is to be found in the fact that s. 26(1)(f) of the 1911 Act recognises lack of

Debtors Act, 1869

the punishment of fradulent debtors. The (English) Debtors Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 54), gives a judicial discretion in the case of a defaulting trustee or solicitor. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Debt'; IMPRISONMENT, and as

Meat on hoof

[Old English hoof; related to Old Norse Hofr, Old High German hoof (German Huf), Sanskrit saphas]. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Third Edn., Vol. 2, page 1333 'hoofs' is mentioned in respect of 'Fertilisers and Feeding Stuffs Act,

Authority

authority to sign the contract, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 127. Means a right; an official or judicial command; also a legal power to do an act given by one man to another. Consult Vin. Abr.,

Then

the first instance, it points to the event and in the second as an adverb of time, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary. The word 'then' occurring in s. 42A of Presidency Small Causes Courts Act, 1882 is prefaced b

Statute

forth in a formal document, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1425. Statute, is synonymous with Act of Parliament, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Vol. 3, p. 2544. Statute, is the will of the legislature i.e. an edict of the legislature.

Issued and served

of 'sent' but that the said expression had received, before the Indian Income-tax (Amendment) Act, 1959, a clear judicial interpretation. Subba Rao, J., as he then was, dealing with the purpose which the word 'issue' was intended

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