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Plain dealing
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Stare decisis
when no title and no contract will be shaken, no persons can complain, and no general course of dealing be altered by the remedy of a mistake, Maktul v. Manbhari, AIR 1958 SC 918 (922): 1959 SCR … supreme appellate Court will not shrink from overruling a decision, or series of decisions, which establish a doctrine plainly outside the statute and outside the common law, when no title and no contract will be shaken, no
Suit
has not been defined in the Code; but there can be little doubt that in the context the plain and grammatical meaning at the word would include the whole of the suit and not a part of … provided to him. Generally a suit does not include appeal or an application. When the section of statute deals with both suits and appeals, it cannot be said that the word 'suit' has been used in the
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Magna Carta
chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of the wretched condition of the serfs in those days; chapter five compelled such guardians to keep … time been necessary and expedient to give to justices and local magistrates jurisdiction to a limited extent in dealing with crimes and quasi criminal matters. This jurisdiction is of two kinds:-(1) Relating to indictable offences; and (2)
Abduction
and of wards appear no longer to be of practical effect. See ABUSING CHILDREN; CHILDREN; RAPE. On a plain reading, of that clause there does not seem to be any reason for holding that the word 'abducting' … jurisdiction: this is Contempt of Court (q.v.). See GUARDIAN. The statutes 13 Edw. 1, c. 34 & 35, dealing with the carrying away of married women with the goods of their husbands, the abduction of nuns and
Paper
purposes but is used according to The Random House Dictionary of the English Language between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper … has to be understood according to the aforesaid well-established canon of construction in the sense in which persons dealing in and using the article understand it. It is, therefore, necessary to know what is paper as commonly
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