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Home Dictionary Name: judicial decision Page: 5Ab judicatio
Ab judicatio, means the act of depriving a person of a thing by judicial decision, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 4...
Progressive party
The political party formed chiefly out of the Republican party by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912 The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug 7 1912 when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted It was also known as the Bull Moose Party Among the chief articles in the platform are those demanding direct primaries preferential primaries for presidential nominations direct election of United States senators womens suffrage and recall of judicial decisions in certain cases In 1924 the label was also adopted by the party supporting the presidential campaign of Robert M La Follette and in 1948 it was also adopted by the party of Henry Wallace The party is no longer 1998 considered a force in U S national politics...
Penalty
Penal retribution punishment for crime or offense the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime offense or trespass...
penalty
penalty pl: -ties 1 : a punishment that is imposed on a wrongdoer by statute or judicial decision 2 : a pecuniary sum that by agreement is to be paid by a party who fails to fulfill an obligation to another and that is punitive rather than compensatory [the court declined to enforce the contractual and determined actual damages instead] ...
law
law [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1 : a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a : a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute b : something (as a judicial decision) authoritatively accorded binding or controlling effect in the administration of justice [that case is no longer the of this circuit] 2 a : a body of laws [the of a state] ;broadly : laws and justice considered as a general and established entity [the looks with disfavor on restraints on alienation] b : common law compare equity 3 a : the control or authority of the law [maintain and order] b : one or more agents or agencies involved in enforcing laws c : the application of a law or laws as distinct from considerations of fact [an error of ] see also issue of law at issue matter of law at matter question of law at question 4 : the whole body of laws and doctrines relating to one subject [contract ] [the...
doctrine
doctrine : a principle established through judicial decisions compare law, precedent doc·tri·nal [-trə-nəl] adj ...
case law
case law : law established by judicial decisions in cases as distinguished from law created by legislation called also decisional law see also common law ...
Dijudicate
To make a judicial decision to decide to determine...
Judicial power
Judicial power, 'judicial power' may be defined as the power to examine questions submitted for determination with a view to the pronouncement of an authoritative decision as to rights and liabilities of one or more parties, Firm of Mohd. Ali and Sons v. V. Madhavarao, AIR 1964 AP 132 (135). (Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, s. 24)The legislatures in India cannot exercise a power which can be described as essentially judicial and not legislative. There has been a lacuna in creating jurisdiction, supplies it, it acts within the legislative field. Where, however, the legislature goes further than this & compels the determination of a case at the hands of a court taking it completely out of reach of the court to make a contrary decision, the matter is one under judicial and not legislative power, Biharilal v. Ramcharan, AIR 1957 MP 165.Means the judicial power which every authority i.e., courts i.e., High Court and subordinate judiciary, established under Chapters V and VI of Part VI and th...
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
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