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A market place or public place in Rome where causes were judicially tried and orations delivered to the people

Bona patria

county to pass upon an assize. The persons composing it are called juratores, because they are to swear judicially in the presence of the party, etc., according to the practice of Scotland, Skene.

Cognizance, or conusance

Cognizance, or conusance, the hearing of a thing judicially; also an acknowledgment of a fine; and in replevin it was, before the Judicature Acts the name for

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provision of any other Act. The discretion conferred by the rule is very wide, but must be exercised judicially (see Sharpe v. Wakefield, 1891 AC 173, and cases referred to in the notes in Annual Practice to

Court and Judge

agency created by the sovereign for the purpose of administering justice. It is a place where justice is judicially administered. It is a legal entity. It is a Tribunal presided over by one or more Judges on

Declarator

an action whereby it is sought to have some right of property, or of status, or other right judicially ascertained and declared, Bell's Scots Law Dict.

Body

who is to be taken (as habeas corpus). And see CORPSE. What constitutes a body has not been judicially defined. There must have been independent life, a non-viable fetus expelled at a stage of pregnancy at which

Estoverlis habendis

Estoverlis habendis, a writ for a wife judicially separated to recover her alimony or estovers. Obsolete.

In the opinion of the custodian

not intended to invest the Custodian with arbitrary authority. In forming his opinion, he was bound to act judicially, Custodian of Evacuee Property v. Rabia Bai, (1976) 4 SCC 270: AIR 1976 SC 2557. [Administration of Evacuee

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the dictionary meaning of a word cannot be looked at where that word has been statutorily defined or judicially interpreted but where there is no such definition or interpretation, the court may take the aid of dictionaries

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