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General Court
General Court : a legislative assembly ;specif : the state legislature in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
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Judicial power
24) The legislatures in India cannot exercise a power which can be described as essentially judicial and not legislative. There has been a lacuna in creating jurisdiction, supplies it, it acts within the legislative field. Where, however, … the legislature goes further than this & compels the determination of a case at the hands of a court taking it completely out of reach of the court to make a contrary decision, the matter is one
Marriage
(1876) 1 App Cas 686, per Lord Cairns, L.C. Further, it has become a constitutional practice of the legislature to pass from time to time, as required, special validating acts to confirm, ex abundanti coutela, marriages where … marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage,
equal protection
XIV to the Constitution in the back matter NOTE: The equal protection requirement of the Constitution protects against legislation that affects individuals differently without a rational basis for doing so. In reviewing claims of denial of equal … individuals differently without a rational basis for doing so. In reviewing claims of denial of equal protection, a court will uphold legislation that has a rational basis unless the legislation affects a fundamental right or involves a
Shall
modern statutes the word shall is used as an imperative only and not as a future, Thring: Practical Legislation, p. 83. Shall, or may is not conclusive on the question whether the particular requirement of law is … section compels the conclusion that on an application by anybody other than the State Government, the State Industrial Court or a District Industrial Court may also refuse to take action, Labour Commissioner v. Burhanpur Tapti Mills Ltd.,
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the … council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or
court
may neither preside at nor attend the meeting of creditors "J. H. Williamson"] 4 usu cap : a legislative body [the General Court of Massachusetts] 5 : a body (as the International Court of Justice) exercising judicial
contempt
presence of the court 2 : willful disobedience to a lawful order of or willful obstruction of a legislative body in the course of exercising its powers [ of Congress] in contempt : in the state of
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