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lead
lead led lead·ing : to suggest the desired answer to (a witness) by asking leading questions n : something serving as a tip, indication, or clue [the police have only one in the … lead led lead·ing : to suggest the desired answer to (a witness) by asking leading questions n : something serving as a tip, indication, or clue [the police have only one in the murder
Conclusive
Belonging to a close or termination decisive convincing putting an end to debate or question leading to or involving a conclusion or decision
Larceny (Advertisement) Act, 1870 (English)
advertisement for the return of stolen goods 'without questions being asked,' recoverable by anyone suing for it. This leading to vexatious actions by common informers against the publishers of newspapers, the Act of 1870 enacts that no … penalty of 50l. is imposed on any person publishing an advertisement for the return of stolen goods 'without questions being asked,' recoverable by anyone suing for it. This leading to vexatious actions by common informers against the
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case
facts of the case at bar] case of first im·pres·sion : a case that presents an issue or question never before decided or considered by the court com·pan·ion case : a case that is heard with another … in an action land·mark case : a case that marks a significant turning point on a particular issue lead·ing case : a case so well reasoned and important in the rules of law determined and in the
Shall
directory, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC 645. Shall, is not conclusive of the question whether a provision is mandatory, Hari Vishnu Kamath v. Ahmad Ishaque, AIR 1955 SC 233: (1955) 1 SCR … (1975) 2 SCC 482: Re Panchami, (1981) LW (Cr) 112. Shall, significance is mandatory. Unless the ordinary interpretation leads to some absurd or inconvenient results or is contrary to the intention of the legislature as envisaged in
Public order
order' and 'public order' is one of the degree and extent of the reach of the act in question on society. It is the potentiality of the act to disturb the even tempo of life of the … to be adopted in determining whether an act affects law and order or public order, is: Does it lead to disturbance of the current life of the community so as to amount to disturbance of public order
Restrictive trade practice
se be a restrictive trade practice. Every trade agreement restrains or binds persons or places or prices. The question is whether the restraint is such as regulates and thereby promotes competition or whether it is such as … trader in supply of such goods or in providing the services which has led or is likely to lead to rise in the price. (b) Any trade practice which requires a consumer to buy, hire or avail
Cabinet
UK cabinet consists of the Prime Minister and such of his colleagues as he may select from among leading Legislators, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 67. Relates to … for directing criticism of Government, policy and outlines alternative polices. Members of shadow cabinet get precedence in asking questions and in debate, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 211. The institution of shadow cabinet came
Reward
usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321. By the (English) Criminal Law Act, … a reward for the return of property stolen or lost with the use of words 'purporting that no questions will be asked,' etc., or publishing any advertisement to that effect, entails a forfeiture of 50l. to any
Civil Law
(1) The Institutes, in which the elements of jurisprudence are disposed in a didactic form; its chief and leading objects are explained in a regular series, and the whole arranged in such a way as neither to … the elementary work might precede it, 1 Cloq. R.C.L. 66. The Digest is complied from the decisions, conjectures, questions, and disputes of the most famous lawyers who had existed up to that time; and thus the substance
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