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Lawyer
to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters It is a general term comprehending attorneys counselors solicitors barristers sergeants and … One versed in the laws or a practitioner of law one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise as to prosecution or
Contentious business
Contentious business, the business of legal practitioners where there is a contest, as opposed to non-contentious business when there is no such contest; the … Contentious business, the business of legal practitioners where there is a contest, as opposed to non-contentious business when there is no such contest; the latter
Subordinate Court
court of Small causes established under Act No. 9 of 1850 or Act No. 11 of 1865. [Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 (18 of 1879), s. 3]
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Jury
Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 77), s. 6, is having those property qualifications and being also legally entitled to be called an esquire, or being a person of higher degree, or being a banker or … police, J.P.'s within their own jurisdiction, mem-bers of corporations, etc., governors of prisons, superintendents of asylums, registered medical practitioners, chemists, dentists, officers and members of H.M. forces, servants of Post Office, Customs, and Inland Revenue, H.M. Household,
Precedent
individuals can rely in the conduct of their affairs, as well as a basis for orderly development of legal rules, Surinder Singh v. Hardial Singh, AIR 1985 SC (1985) 1 SCC 91: (1985) 1 SCR 1059. … other documents in ordinary use which are made and published from time to time as models which a practitioner can safely follow, after adaptation so far as necessary to his own particular case. See Davidson's Precedents in
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