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Sessions of the peace

motion and private agreement, but on a particular occasion for the execution of some given branch of their authority, after reasonable notice to all the other magistrates of the hundred or other division of the county, city,

Husband and wife

1891 the Court of Appeal (Lords Halsbury and Esher and Sir Edward Fry) disregarded this and all similar authorities and dicta, and held on a return to a habeas corpus that where a wife refused to live

District Court

District Court, means, in any area for which there is a city civil court, that court, and in any other area, the principal civil court of original jurisdiction, and includes any other civil court which maybe...

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Public authority

Public authority, in the policy statement is not a term of art. It must be construed in a purpose way,

Cognizance

Cognizance (Judicial), knowledge upon which a judge is bound to act without having it proved in evidence: as the public statutes of the realm, the ancient history of the realm, the order and course of proceedings...

Chancery

Chancery [fr. Cancelli, lattice-work, Lat.; chancellerie, Fr.]. the Court of Chancery, which administered equity (see that title) so far as distinct from law, was the highest court of judicature in this kingdom next to Parliament. Its...

Court

under any law for the time being in force, to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial functions. [The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 (39 of 1987), s. 2 (1) (aaa)] It means a court constituted under this Act. [Parsi

Information

also include true and correct state of the law derived from relevant judicial decisions either of the income-tax authorities or other courts of law which decide income-tax matter. Whether the ground on which the original assessment is

Criminal contempt

writing published which is calculated to bring a Court or a Judge into contempt, or to lower his authority, or to interfere with the due course of justice or the lawful process of the Court, is a

Municipal corporation

functions conferred by other public and local Acts with powers to make bye-laws in pursuance of statutory duties, authorities an discreations, and by virtue of the charter (if any) of its constitution, including powers for raising, borrowing

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