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justice
justice [Old French, from Latin justitia, from justus just] 1 a : the quality of being just, impartial, or fair [it is not the province of the court to decide upon the or injustice…of these laws "Scott v. Sanford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)"] b : the principle or ideal of just dealing ;also : conformity to the principle or ideal of just dealing 2 a : the administration of law [a fugitive from ] ;esp : the establishment or determination of rights according to law or equity [system of ] b : fair, just, or impartial legal process [courts or tribunals…for the administration of international "G. R. Winters"] 3 : judge ;esp : a judge of an appellate court or court of last resort (as a supreme court) [insults to particular s and threats of civil disobedience were bandied freely "R. H. Bork"] ...
intermediate court
intermediate court : a court (as an appeals court) beneath the court of last resort in a jurisdiction ...
high court
high court 1 : a court of last resort in the U.S. ;esp : supreme court 2 cap : high court of justice ...
associate justice
associate justice : a justice of a court of last resort who is not the chief justice ...
Impeachment
Impeachment, a prosecution by the House of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanours, or of a peer for any crime; in modern times rarely been resorted to, though informer periods of our history of frequent occurrence. The last memorable cases are those of Warren Hastings, in 1788, and Lord Melville, in 1805.As to the procedure, see May's Parliamentary Practice.Means bringing a public official before a proper tribunal on a charge of wrong doing, Webster American Dictionary, p. 959.Is the prosecution of President by Parliament for violation of the Constitution. (Constitution of India, Art. 61)In U.K. by the Law of Parliament, all persons, whether peers or commoners can be impeached for any crimes; but it is generally resorted to in respect of extraordinary crimes and extraordinary offen-ces, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine, May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 63.Means the accusation of treason or other crimes is bro...
Departure
Departure [fr. decessus, Lat.], in pleading, when a party deserts the ground that he took in his last antecedent pleading and resorts to another.The rule against departure was necessary to prevent the retardation of the issue.By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 16, it is ordered that 'no pleading, not being a petition or summons, shall, except by way of amendment, raise any new ground of claim or contain any allegation of fact inconsistent with the previous pleadings of the party pleading the same.'Departure with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means departure from India by water, land or air. [Passports Act, 1967 (15 of 1967), s. 2 (a)]...
Mortgage
Mortgage [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and gage, pledge], a deed pledge; a thing put into the hands of a creditor.A mortgage is the creation of an interest in property, defeasible (i.e., annullable) upon performing the condition of paying a given sum of money, with interest thereon, at a certain time. This conditional assurance is resorted to when a debt has been incurred, or a loan of money or credit effected, in order to secure either the repayment of the one or the liquidation of the other. the debtor, or borrower, is then the mortgagor, who has charged or transferred his property in favour of or to the creditor or lender, who thus becomes the mortgagee. If the mortgagor pay the debtor loan and interest within the time mentioned in a clause technically called the proviso for redemption, he will be entitled to have his property again free from the mortgagee's claim; but should he not comply with such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so los...
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