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Contrary to natural justice

to the alleged irregularities in procedure adopted by the adjudicating court and has nothing to do with the merits of the case. If the proceedings be in accordance with the practice of the foreign court but that

Consultation

Judges to make their respective points of view known to the others and discuss and examine the relative merits of their view, High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan v. P.P. Singh, (2003) 4 SCC 239: AIR 2003

Confidential report

to the reporting authority, that such reports are maintained for the purpose of serving as data of comparative merit when questions of promotion, confirmation, etc. arise. They also show that such reports are not ordinarily to contain

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Commutative justice and distributive justice

Relative equality in treating different persons while grating relief according to need, or reward and punishment according to merit and guilt is the essence of distributive justice. While in commutative justice the two persons confront each other

Civil list

to the public or by their useful discoveries in science and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their sovereign and the gratitude of their country.' [Civil List Act,1837, ss. 5, 6

Insurance

Insurance, see, Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80C, Expl. 1. Insurance, the act of providing against a possible loss, by entering into a contract with one who is willing to give assurance, that is,...

Innocent agent

Innocent agent, means a person whose action on behalf of a principal is unlawful but does not merit prosecution because the agent had no knowledge of the principal's illegal purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.

Review

to set aside a palpably erroneous order passed under by misapprehension under it and (2) a review on merits when the error sought to be corrected is one of law and is apparent on the face of

Issuable plea

Issuable plea, a plea on which a plaintiff may take issue, and go to trial upon the merits. See now STATEMENT OF DEFENCE.

Quantum meruit

on a promise to pay the plaintiff for doing a thing as much as he has earned or merited. The term is still in use to meet the cases where a plaintiff failing to prove a special

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