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Decree

decree is a record of the formal adjudication of the Court relating to a right claimed by a party to a suit. It does not by its own force secure money or property, State of Uttar Pradesh

Recital

construction, a recital of a particular fact but not a general recital amounts to an estoppel against the party making it. Whether both parties are bound is a question of intention to be ascertained in the same

Property

State of Bihar, AIR 2003 SC 3436. Property, in indicative and descriptive of every possible interest which a party can have, State of Manipur v. Nongthombam Ambu Singh, AIR 1957 Manipur 1. Property, in its most general

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Batson challenge

Court ruling that prohibited the striking of jurors on a racial basis] : an objection in which one party argues that the other has used the peremptory challenge to strike one or more prospective jurors from the

Sufficient cause

Act, 1987, s. 14(3), Proviso 2] The expression 'sufficient cause' cannot be cons-trued too liberally, merely because the party is the Government. It cannot also be gainsaid that the same consideration that will be shown by courts

Restitution of stolen goods

restitution of goods upon an indictment, because it is at the suit of the Crown only; therefore the party was enforced to bring an appeal of robbery in order to have his goods again; but a writ

Restitutio in integrum

man had acted under the influence of force or reasonable fear caused by the acts of the other party, he had an actio quod metus causa for restitution against the party who was the wrongdoer; and also

Power

specified acts. Powers are never imperative; they leave the act to be done at the Will or the party to whom they are given. Trusts are always imperative and are obligatory upon the conscience of the party

Demurrer

1, but subsequent rules of the same Order allow points of law raised on the pleading of any party to be disposed of before trial by order of the Court or a judge, and pleadings to be

discovery

the methods used by parties to a civil or criminal action to obtain information held by the other party that is relevant to the action see also deposition, interrogatory, request for production b : the disclosure of

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