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Judicial capacity

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Judicially

In a judicial capacity or judicial manner

Judicial office and Judicial officer

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Criminal contempt

three sub-clauses (i) to (iii), only category (ii) refers to 'judicial proceeding. Scandalising of court in its administrative capacity will also be covered by sub-clause (i) and (iii). The phrase 'administration of justice' in sub-clause (iii) is … 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

jurisdiction

contacts within the territory (as a state) of that court. primary jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted by a judicially created doctrine to an administrative agency to decide certain controversies initially before relief is sought in the courts … properly adjudicate a case. Questions of jurisdiction also arise regarding quasi-judicial bodies (as administrative agencies) in their decision-making capacities. ancillary jurisdiction : jurisdiction giving a court the power to adjudicate claims (as counterclaims and cross-claims) because they

Cannot

'cannot', therefore, would mean 'not to be able' or 'not to have the power or capacity'. In Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., the word 'cannot' is defined to include a legal inability as well as physical impossibility,

Lord Chancellor

the Chancery Division and presiding over the Supreme Court of Judicature and the House of Lords in its judicial capacity

Chancellor, Lord

all charitable uses'and all this, over and above the vast and extensive jurisdiction which he exercises in his judicial capacity in the Supreme Court of Judicature, of which he is the head. An ex-Chancellor is by virtue (English)

Judicially

of S. Mohd. Ali and Sons v. V. Madhavarao, AIR 1964 AP 132. An authority acts in a judicial capacity when after investigation and deliberation it performs an act or makes a decision that is binding and conclusive

Take cognisance of an offence

offence, simply means that taking notice of an offence by a court, competent for the purpose in a judicial capacity with a view to the initiation of judicial proceedings against the accused in respect of that offence applying

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