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jurisdictional amount : the amount or value that a matter in controversy must exceed in order for the federal courts to have diversity jurisdiction NOTE: The jurisdictional amount is set by statute and is currently $50,000. ...
legal certainty test
legal certainty test : a rule in federal civil procedure: a defendant's challenge to diversity jurisdiction made on the basis that the amount of money involved in the controversy falls short of the jurisdictional amount will be defeated if the plaintiff provides proof that the amount is certain to be met called also legal certainty rule legal certainty standard ...
Jurisdictional fact
Jurisdictional fact, is a fact which must exist before a court, tribunal or an Authority assumes jurisdiction over a particular matter. Jurisdictional fact is one on existence or non-existence of which depends jurisdiction of a court, a tribunal or authority. It is a fact upon which an administrative agency's power to act depends, Arunkumar v. Union of India, (2006) 12 JT 121: (2006) 9 SCALE 320: (2006) 7 Supreme 607.Jurisdictional fact, is one on existence or non-existence of which depends assumption or refusal to assume jurisdiction by a Court, Tribunal or an authority. It can explain as a fact which must exist before a court can properly assume jurisdiction of a particular case, Shrisht Dhawan v. Shaw Brothers, AIR 1992 SC 1555 (1563): (1992) 1 SCC 534...
Jurisdictional Servitude
Jurisdictional Servitude, a phrase which implies that the court (Supreme Court) is bound by its own jurisdictional limits. 'The bench, with all its limits to breakthrough, is bound by a jurisdictional servitude' [Shiv Mohan Singh v. State of Delhi, AIR 1977 SC 949 (953), para 15]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
jurisdictional strike
jurisdictional strike see strike ...
Jurisdictional
Of or pertaining to jurisdiction as jurisdictional rights...
Concurrent jurisdictions
Concurrent jurisdictions, the jurisdiction of several different tribunals, both authorized to deal with the same subject-matter at the choice of the suitor. Inequity, the jurisdiction was concurrent where no complete relief was obtainable at law. It was exercised in order to avoid circuity of action or multiplicity of suits. See UNSOUND MIND....
Jurisdictional limits
Jurisdictional limits, means the geographic bound-aries or the constitutional or statutory limits within which a court's authority may be exercised, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 857...
Due amounts due
Due amounts due, an amount 'due' normally refers to an amount which the creditor has a right to recover. Wharton in Law Lexicon defines 'due' as anything owing; that which one contracts to pay another. 'Amounts due' under, s. 71 are those amounts which the creditor could have recovered had he filed a suit, State of Kerala v. V.R. Kalliyanikibty, (1999) 3 SCC 657 (661). [Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968, ss. 71, 702, 69(2)...
Prize amount
Prize amount, means the difference between the chit amount and the discount, and in the case of a fraction of a ticket means the difference between the chit amount and the discount proportionate to the fraction of the ticket, and when the prize amount is payable otherwise than in cash, the value of the prize amount shall be the value at the time when it becomes payable. [Chit Funds Act, 1982 (40 of 1982), s. 2(m)]...
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