Locus Standi - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Locus standi, is a place for standing, rights to be heard, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637.Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has locus standi which his interest is directly hit by the bill, if passed into law, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abrahan and S.C. hawtrey, 1956, p. 113.Locus standi, the right of a party to appear and be heard on the question before any tribunal, frequently disputed in private bill legislation. Consult the works of Smethurst, or of Clifford and Stephens, on this subject....
Pou sto
A place to stand upon a locus standi hence a foundation or basis for operations...
Preliminary point
Preliminary point, is not confined to such legal points only as may be pleaded in bar of a suit but comprehends all points or issues, whether of facts or law, determination of which has precluded the necessity for determining other points or issues which have, therefore, been left undetermined, Vassantimal Devaldas v. Hiromal Mohammal, AIR 1947 Sind 94: 1946 ILR Kar 380: 227 IC 633.Means a point, the decision of which is sufficient to dispose off the whole suit without the necessity of deciding other points involved in the case. It may be one of facts of law. It would include a point which relates to cause of action for the plaintiff or his 'locus standi' to bring to particular suit, Jit Kuarg Kehar Singh, AIR 1951 Pepsu 130.Preliminary point, refers to a point, the decision of which is sufficient to dispose of the whole suit without the necessity of deciding other points involved in the case, Jit Kaur v. Kehar Singh, AIR 1951 Pepsu 364....
Referee
Referee, one to whom anything is referred; an arbitrator. Also, persons to whom are referred questions as to the locus standi of petitioners againstprivate parliamentary Bills. Consult the works of Smethurst or Clifford and Stephens hereon.A type of master appointed by a court to assist with certain proceedings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 1284.Panels of referees are appointed to decide technical questions on appeal from depart mental authorities under various statutes, see 8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 13 (licensing of stations); as to bulls, see that title; on valuation of machinery, see (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 24; also (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), and other Acts. Reference committees may be appointed under the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1929; Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 20), for compensation; and the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, in relation t...
Covent Garden Market
Covent Garden Market. For its regulation by the Covent Garden Market Act, 1828 (9 Geo. 4, c. 113), see Bedford (Duke of) v. Ellis, 1901 AC 1, in which the respondent and five other growers of fruit, etc., were held to have a locus standi to sue for infringement of preferential rights...
Chamber of Agriculture, Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Agriculture, Chamber of Commerce, an assembly of (1) agriculturists or (2) merchants and traders, where affairs relating to agriculture or trade are treated of. Chambers of such kind are recognized by s. 7(1)(b) of the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 25), as having a locus standi before the Railway and Canal Commission to complain of any infringement of the Railway and Canal Traffic Acts, upon obtaining a certificate from the Board of Trade of being 'a proper body' to complain....
absolute right
absolute right : an unqualified right : a legally enforceable right to take some action or to refrain from acting at the sole discretion of the person having the right ...
Right
Right [fr. recht, Teut.; rectus, Lat. The application of the same word to denote a staight line and moral rectitude of conduct, has obtained in every language I know, Dugald teward], in its primitive sense, that which the law directs; in popular acceptation, that which is so directed for the protection and advantage of an individual is said to be his right, 1 Stark. Evid. 1, n. (b). It has been described as a liberty of doing or possessing something consistently with law, or more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing something for the infringement of which there is a legal sanction. It is often confused in the popular mind with licence of the doing of something which his not prohibited by law, however damaging the act may be to individuals or the community. See MALUM IN SE.A 'right' is a legally protected interest, Mithilesh Kumari v. Prem Behari Khare, AIR 1989 SC 1247 (1255): (1989) 2 SCC 95: (1989) 1 SCR 621.A 'right' is an averment of entitlement arising out of legal rul...
Limitation of actions and prosecutions
Limitation of actions and prosecutions. By various statutes, of which the first was 21 Jac. 1, c. 16, the (English) Limitation Act, 1623, and the principal succeeding ones, the Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 42), the (English) Civil Procedure Act (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 27) [see Read v. Price, (1909) 2 KB 724], and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 57, the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1874, certain periods are fixed within which, upon the principle Interest reipublic' ut sit finis litium, particular actions must be brought or proceedings taken.In the case of simple contract the remedy on the contract is barred, leaving the creditor free to enforce his claims by other means which may be still available, such as enforcing a lien, subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor or appropriation of payments, but not by way of set-off (9 Geo. 4, c. 14, s. 3). In regard to land, the right to it is destroyed after the statutory period and neither re-entry nor acknowledgment after the laps...
stand
stand stood stand·ing vi 1 : to be in a particular state or situation [ accused] 2 : to remain valid or effective [let the ruling ] vt : to submit to [ trial] stand in judgment : to submit to the judgment of the court stand in the shoes of : to assume the rights or obligations of stand mute : to be effectively silent: as a : to exercise the privilege against self-incrimination (as in a trial) b : to raise no objections [the prosecution agreed to stand mute at the sentencing] stand on : to depend on esp. as the basis of an argument or claim [a party who stands on the writing as a complete and exclusive embodiment of the contract "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] n : the place taken by a witness for testifying in court [take the ] compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar ...
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