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Investigation

things considered necessary for the investigation and to be produced at the trial; and (v) formation of the opinion as to whether on the material collected there is a case to place the accused before a Magistrate

Proportional representation

is a system of voting deliberately designed to ensure that as far as practicable the different shades of opinion in a country shall receive a fair representation in the elected assembly i.e. a representation proportionate to their

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

although inform it reports to the King advising that an appeal should be allowed or disallowed: consequently dissenting opinions are not disclosed. The principal matters which come before the Judicial Committee are:-(1) Appeals from the Courts in

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Probation

before a Court of summary jurisdiction and the Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that, having regard to the character, antecedents, age, health, or mental condition of the person charged, or to

Question of fact

Question of fact, is one capable of being answered by way of demonstration, a question of opinion is one that cannot be so answered. The answer to it is a matter of speculation which cannot

Resolution

of creditors and voting on the resolution: 'resolution' means ordinary resolution (s. 167). A formal expression of an opinion, intention, or decision by an official body or assembly, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1313. Resolution, is

Science

Science, the word 'science' is wide enough to meet the requirement of treating the opinion of a typewriter expert as an opinion evidence coming within the ambit of s. 45 of the Evidence

Toleration Act

Toleration Act (English) (1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18), confirmed by 10 Anne, c. 2, by which all persons dissenting from the Church of England (except Papists and persons denying the Trinity) were relieved...

Reason

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion a just ground for a conclusion or an action that which is offered or accepted as an explanation

Charities, or Public Trusts

temporal concerns) were entitled to peculiar favour, and to be deemed privileged testaments. Lord Thurlow was clearly of opinion that the doctrine of charities grew up from the civil law; and Lord Eldon, in assenting to that

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