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legal representative

legal representative : one who represents or stands in the place of another under authority recognized by law esp. with respect to the other's property or interests: as a : personal representative b : an agent having legal status ;esp : one acting under a power of attorney ...

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth

Whoever legally bound by an oath or by an express provisions of law to state the truth, The opening words of s. 191 'whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth........' do not support the submission that a man who is not bound under the law to make an affidavit, can if he does make one, deliberately retrain from stating truthfully the facts which are within his knowledge. The meaning of these words is that whenever in a court of law a person binds himself on oath to state the truth he is bound to state the truth and he cannot be heard to say that he should not have gone into the witness box or should not have made an affidavit and therefore the submission that any false statement which he had made after taking the oath is not covered by the words of s. 191, IPC is not supportable. Whenever a man makes a statement in court on oath he is bound to state the truth and if he does not, he makes himself liable under the provisions of s. 193. It...

Legally unfree

Legally unfree, denoted prisoners or undertrials languishing in jails. '...a prison context affects the colour, content and contour of the freedoms of the legally unfree' [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675, para 54]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...

Legally bound to do

Legally bound to do, A person is said to be 'legally bound to do' whatever it is illegal in him to omit, Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 43....

Illegal, legally bound to do

Illegal, legally bound to do, the word 'illegal' is applicable to everything which is an offence or which is prohibited by law, or which furnishes ground for a civil action: and a person is said to be 'Legally bound to do' whatever it is illegal in him to omit. [Indian Penal Code, s. 43]...

legality

legality pl: -ties 1 : attachment to or observance of law 2 : the quality or state of being legal : lawfulness 3 pl : obligations imposed by law ...

Council of Legal Education

Council of Legal Education, a body consisting of twenty benchers, five nominated by each of the four Inns of Court, to whom is entrusted the business of superintending the education and examination of students inorder to their being called to the Bar. The members remain in office for two years, and each Inn has power to fill up any vacancy that may occur in the number of its nominees during tha tperiod. See the 'Consolidated Regulations' of the Inns of Court....

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