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Last resort. A Court from which there is no appeal is called the Court of last resort....
court of last resort
court of last resort :a court of final appeal in a jurisdiction see also court of appeals, supreme court, supreme court of appeals, supreme judicial court ...
Resort
Resort. A Court whose decision is for the particular case before it final and without appeal is, in reference to that case, said to be a Court of Last Resort. The House of Lords has been especially so spoken of.As to place of public resort, see PUBLIC PLACE.Something that one turns to for aid or refuge, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313....
court of appeals
court of appeals often cap C&A : a court hearing appeals from the decisions of lower courts: as a : an intermediate court of the U.S. federal judicial system b : a state appellate court called also court of appeal see also the Judicial System in the back matter NOTE: Not all of the states have intermediate-level courts but of those that do, many are called the Court of Appeals or, in California and Louisiana, the Court of Appeal. In Hawaii, such a court is called the Intermediate Court of Appeals. In some states, appeals are divided between a court of criminal appeals and a court of civil appeals. In the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York the court of last resort is called the Court of Appeals, and the intermediate court in Maryland is called the Court of Special Appeals. In West Virginia the court of last resort is called the Supreme Court of Appeals. In England the Court of Appeal is a division of the Supreme Court of Judicature. ...
supreme court
supreme court 1 : the highest court in a nation or state ;specif cap S&C : the highest court in the judicial branch of the U.S. government that has original jurisdiction over controversies involving ambassadors or other ministers or consuls but whose main activity is as the court of last resort exercising appellate jurisdiction over cases involving federal law 2 cap S&C : a court of original jurisdiction in New York NOTE: The court of last resort in New York is the Court of Appeals. ...
Stare decisis
Stare decisis, to abide by authorities or cases already adjudicated upon.The doctrine of precedent , under which it is necess-ary for a court to follow earlier judicial decisions when some points arise again in litigation, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1414.Stare decisis is a well-known doctrine in legal jurisprudence. The doctrine of stare decisis, meaning to stand by decided cases, rests upon the principle that law by which men are governed should be fixed, definite and known, and that, when the law is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction authorised to construe it, such declaration, in absence of palpable mistake or error, is itself evidence of the law until changed by competent authority. It requires that rules of law when clearly announced and established by a court of last resort should not be lightly disregarded and set aside but should be adhered to and followed. What it precludes is that where a principle of law has become established by a series of decisions, i...
Respondentia
Respondentia, money which is borrowed not upon the vessel, as in bottomry, but upon the goods and merchandise contained in it, in cases of extreme urgency, as a last resort and where communication with the owners is impossible in the circumstances. The shipowner must indemnify the owner of the cargo thus hypothecated.(to answer). A loan secured by cargo on one's ship rather than the ship itself, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313....
Cassation
Cassation [fr. casser, Fr., to quash], a making null and void any unjust or illegal act or decision; also a decision in the last resort, Fr. Law. The 'Cour de Cassation' is the Highest Court of Appeal in France....
Supreme Judicial Court
Supreme Judicial Court : the court of last resort in Maine and Massachusetts ...
levy
levy pl: lev·ies 1 : an act of levying: as a : the imposition or collection of a tax b : the seizure according to a writ of execution of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession to satisfy a judgment debt 2 : an amount levied : tax [providing for a of 3% on income up to $10,000 "D. Q. Posin"] vb lev·ied levy·ing vt 1 : to impose or collect (as a tax or fine) with authority [allow it to stiffer penalties for some safety violations "National Law Journal"] 2 : to enforce or carry into effect (a writ of execution) compare attach, garnish vi : to enforce a writ of execution or attachment ;specif : to make a seizure of real or personal property in a judgment debtor's possession [they might as a last resort on his merchandise "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] ...
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