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North-Eastern region

North-Eastern region, means the North-Eastern region of India comprising the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura. [Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (40 of 1992), s. 2(l)]...

North Central

Of or pertaining to a region of the U S generally including states of the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region lying north of the Ohio River and the southern boundaries of Kansas and Missouri and between the western boundary of Pennsylvania and the eastern boundaries of Montana Wyoming and Colorado...

Circuits

Circuits (seven eight formerly), certain divisions of England and Wales, appointed for the judges to go formerly twice a year, in the respective vacations after Hilary and Trinity terms, but more recently oftener, and at no precisely fixed periods, to administer justice in the several counties. Two judges, until 1884, attended at each circuit town, when by a new scheme set on foot by the 'Circuits Order' of that year it was arranged that at the majority of the circuit towns one judge only should attend, with the power, however, under Rule 9 of the Order, of requesting one of the judges in London to proceed to any place on circuit in his aid 'in order to enable the judges, as far as possible, to leve no cause untried at any place on any circuit.' The following were the circuits as altered by Order in Council made pursuant to 26 & 27 Vict. c. 122, viz.: (1) Northern; (2) Home; (3) Western; (4) Oxford; (5) Midland; (6) Norfolk; (7) North Wales; and South Wales.By the (English) Judicature ...

Malicious prosecution

Malicious prosecution, a prosecution, preferred maliciously, without reasonable or probable cause; the remedy is an action on the case, in which damages may be recovered. The allegation of want of probable cause must be substantively and expressly proved, and cannot be implied; but it is for the judge, not the jury, to determine upon it, Abrath v. North Eastern R. Co., (1886) 11 App Cas 247; Cox v. English, Scottish and Australian Bank, 1905 AC 168. Animus injuri' cannot be inferred from the mere fact that the prosecution has failed, Corea v. Peiris, 1909 AC 549. See Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts....

Reduction in rank

Reduction in rank, a civil servant is reduced in rank only after an inquiry is held; he is informed of the charges against him in such inquiry and he is given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in respect of those charges. [Constitution of India, Art. 311(2)]Reduction in rank, if a civil servant has a right to a particular rank, then the very reduction from that rank will operate as a penalty, for he will then lose the emoluments and privileges of that rank. If, however, he has no right to the particular rank, his reduction from an officiating higher rank to his substantive lower rank will not ordinarily be a punishment (AIR 1958 SC 36 referred); Shitla Sahai Srivastava v. North Eastern Railways, AIR 1966 SC 1197 (1199): (1966) 3 SCR 61.The reduction in rank contemplated by the Article 311 of Constitution of India, 1950 is reduction as a punishment and where no punishment is involved the Article had no application. Any variation in the order of seniority to the prejudice of an off...

Eastern Church

That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...

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