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jury room

jury room : the room where a jury deliberates ...

Mansfield rule, the doctrine that a Juror's testimony or affidavit about juror misconduct may not be used to challenge the verdict. This Mansfield rule as intended to ensure that jurors are heard through their verdict, not through their post verdict testimony. In practice the rule lessons the possibility that losing parties will seek to penetrate the secrets of the jury room. The rule of first announced in Vaise v. Delaval, 99 Eng Rep 944 (KB 1785), in an opinion by William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 976....

Newspaper

Newspaper, means any printed periodical work containing public news or comments on public news and includes such other class of printed periodical work as may, from time to time, be notified in this behalf by the Central Government in the Official Gazette. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2 (b)]The essential pre-requisite of a periodical work containing public news or comments on public news, P.S.V. Iyer v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, AIR 1960 Ori 221 (223). (Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947)Any paper to be classified as a newspaper, would contain a report of recent events, Commissioner of Sales Taxi v. Express Printing Press, AIR 1983 Bom 190 (192). [Bombay Sales Act, (51 of 1959), s. 2(3)][s. 81, Indian Evidence Act]The expression 'newspaper' as defined in the Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act includes not merely 'public n...

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