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Latitude

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Latitudinous

Having latitude or wide extent

Roaring forties

The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds which are especially strong in

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Colatitude

The complement of the latitude or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees

Latitudinal

Of or pertaining to latitude in the direction of latitude

Perioeligci

Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the

Processual

procedure or legal process in its larger sense. 'Where foul play is absent and fairness is not faulted, latitude is a grace of processual justice.' [Mumbai Kamghar Sabha v. Abdul Bhai, AIR 1977 SC 1455 (1458), para

Discretion

and justice and not according to private opinion; according to law and not honour. It only gives certain latitude liberty accorded by statute or rules, to a judge as distinguished from a ministerial or administrative official, in

Cross-examination

the case in examination in chief. The questions must be relevant to the issue (see infra), but great latitude is allowed, as a question seemingly irrelevant often turns out otherwise. In the case of a witness proving

Answers to questions

points contained in the question with such explanation only as would make the answer intelligible; however, a certain latitude is permitted to the Ministers of the Crown by permitting them to read out material and quotations from

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