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Macer

Macer, a mace-bearer; officers of the High Court of Judiciary and Court of Session in Scotland, who carry the mace and perform the functions of usher in the

Paramount parchment

Paramount parchment, term denoting the Constitution of India. '...the immunity of the judiciary must be studied with aware allegiance to the scheme and sweep of the Constitution, with insightful homage to

Organised crime

social and economic aspect which is required to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v.

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Court of record

are allocated or transferred, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(2), para 747, p. 405. Members of the State judiciary below the High Court are subordinate to the High Court and the control over the district courts and

Provisional Order

without appeal or with an appeal to the same executive exclusively has been severely commented upon by the judiciary and publicists: see LORD HEWARI, L.C.J., and next title.

Quo warranto

be ousted from that office by judicial order. In other words, the procedure of quo warranto gives the Judiciary a weapon to control the Executive from making appointment to public office against law and to protect a

Rule of law

a democratically elected legislature, there should not be unfettered legislative power, and lastly there must be an independent judiciary to protect the citizen against excesses of executive and legislative power, Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR

Scandalising the court

v. Union of India, (2003) 2 SCC 45. Scandalising the court, would mean hostile criticism of judges or judiciary, D.C. Saxenca v. Chief Justice of India, (1996) 5 SCC 216.

State

body of people politically organized under one Governor within a territory or territories having definite boundaries, Webster American Judiciary, p. 1424. Means the State of Maharashtra. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physio-therapy Act, 2002, s.

Pardon

conviction for a criminal offence. That power is essentially vested in the head of the Executive, because the judiciary has no such 'mercy jurisdiction'. But the suspension of the sentence for the period when this Court is

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