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Locus standi
heard, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637. Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition.
Living separately
attitude they have been living separately for a period of one year immediately preceding the presentation of the petition, Sureshta Devi v. Om Prakash, AIR 1992 SC 1904 (1907): (1991) 2 SCC 25. [Hindu Marriage Act, (25
Lis pendens
or proceeding pending in court relating to land or any interest in or charge on land, and a petition in bankruptcy filed after the 31st December, 1925, may be registered in the register of pending actions. For
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Libellus conventionis
Libellus conventionis, the statement of a plaintiff's claim in a petition presented to the magistrate, who directed an officer to deliver it to the defendant, Civ. Law.
Information
offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was purely by way of infor-mation,
Bankrupt
the Act of 1883 and of the subsequent statutes are left standing'a most inconvenient method of legislation. the petition of bankruptcy should be registered as a 'lis pendens' and the receiving order and adjudication as 'orders' in
Fiat in bankruptcy
It was abolished by the (English) Bankruptcy Act of 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 106), and a petition for adjudication substituted.
Fiat
by certain Acts before proceedings can be commenced, see Castro v. Murray, (1875) LR 10 Ex 213. See PETITION OF RIGHT. An order or decree esp. an arbitrary one; a court decree esp. one relating to a
Election Commissioners
both Houses of Parliament to inquire into the report made by judges on the trial of an election petition (q.v.) that corrupt and illegal practices took place on an extensive scale at an election. The Commissioners report
Duress
See Scott v. Sebright, (1886) 12 PD 21, in which Butt, J., declared a marriage void on the petition of the wife. is meant the compulsion under which a person acts through fear of personal suffering as
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