Skip to content

Ordering - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Public order

Public order, expression 'public order' has a distinct corrodation. Investigation into the offence under the Essential Commodities Act, may not

injunction

enjoin, from in- in + jungere to join] : an equitable remedy in the form of a court order compelling a party to do or refrain from doing a specified act compare cease-and-desist order at order, damage

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

and 1923 AC 603. The House of Lords held, in this case, that no appeal lies from an order of a competent court for the issue of a writ of habeas corpus where the Court determines the

Keep your definitions linked to case research

habeas corpus

habeas corpus [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court ;esp...

Law and order and public order

Law and order and public order, the acts which affect 'law and order' are not different from the acts which affect

Decree

144, but shall not include' a) any adjudication from which an appeal lies as an appeal from an order, or (b) any order of dismissal for default. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), s. 2

Interlocutory order

Interlocutory order, it has to be construed in con-tradiction to or in contrast with final order. It means not a

Injunction

Slack, (1924) 40 TLR 745. By s. 25, sub-s. 8, an injunction may be granted by an interlocutory order 'in all cases in which it shall appear to the Court to be just or convenient that such

decree

French decré, from Latin decretum, from neuter of decretus, past participle of decernere to decide] 1 : an order having the force of law [by judicial ] 2 : a judicial decision esp. in an equity or

Void decree, illegal decree

cannot be overlooked or ignored. Where a court lacks inherent jurisdiction in passing a decree or making an order, a decree or order passed by such court would be without jurisdiction, non est and void ab initio.

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial