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Obligation

v. Rangnath Rathi and Co., AIR 1958 AP 43 (47). [Specific Relief Act, 1877, s. 54] Means 'a duty; the bond of legal necessity which binds together two or more determinate individuals. It is limited to legal … class of duties, namely, those which are the correlatives of rights in personam. An obligation is the vinculum juris, or bond of legal necessity, which binds together two or more determinate individuals ........ Secondly, the term obligation

Charge

Charge (i) the instructions of a judge to a jury; the judge's summing up of the evidence at a trial by jury; the periodical address of a bishop … a bishop or archdeacon to his clergy; the taking proceedings against a prisoner; a commission. To lay a duty upon any one, to acquaint any with the nature of their duty. See CHARGE SHEET. The clerk of

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Court-leet

as empanelling the jury, are executed by the bedel or bailiff, sworn to a due performance of his duty. The steward may fine or imprison, and may take a recognizance of the peace. The steward may not … of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held

jury list

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discharge

dismiss from employment : terminate the employment of b : to release from service or duty [ a jury] [ a witness] 4 a : to get rid of (as a debt or obligation) by performing an

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