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Oversight

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Jeofail

An oversight in pleading or the acknowledgment of a mistake or oversight

Years

(1952) NLJ 168. The word 'years' in the plural has been retained in the Act by mistake or oversight and it should be read in the singular, Bhairendra Narayan Bhup v. State of Assam, 1956 SCR 303:

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Supervise

must often be construed in the light of the context, for, unless controlled, they cover an easily simple oversight and direction as manual work coupled with a power of inspection and superintendence of the manual work of

Regard of the forest

Regard of the forest, the oversight or inspection of it, or the office and province of the regarder, who is to go through the

Misprision

Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and

Lacuna in the prosecution

Lacuna in the prosecution, is not to be equated with the fallout of an oversight committed by a public prosecutor during trial, either in producing relevant materials or in eliciting relevant answer from

Dyke-reed, or Dyke-reve

Dyke-reed, or Dyke-reve, an officer who has the care and oversight of the dykes and drains in fenny countries.

Deciners, Decenniers, or Doziners

Deciners, Decenniers, or Doziners, such as were wont to have the oversight of the Friburghs or views of frankpledge for the maintenance of the King's peace. The limit and compass

Cofferer of the King's household

the royal establishment, next under the controller, who, in the counting-house and elsewhere, had a special charge and oversight of the other officers, whose wages he paid. He passed his accounts in the Exchequer. Mentioned in 39

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