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Ballot

10 CP 733, in which, on a case stated by Lush, J., after hearing the Birmingham Municipal Election Petition, the mode of marking various disputed ballot papers was reviewed by the Court. The Act was originally limited

Connivance and consent

Connivance and consent, Connivance means consent. The plea of consent is one thing: the fact that connivance means consent (assuming that it does) is quite another.

Contestatio litis

Contestatio litis, the plea and joinder of issue in the Ecclesiastical Courts.

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untimely

not timely ;esp : not made or filed within a period of time specified by procedural rule [an petition] un·time·li·ness n untimely adv

Counter-claim

made in an independent suit and a claim for damages based on same transaction as being broadly a plea of set-off falling u/s. 19(6) & (7), State Bank of India v. Ranjan Chemicals Ltd., 2006 (10) SCALE

Counterplea

When the tenant in any real action, tenant by the courtesy or in dower, in his answer and plea vouched anyone to warrant his title, or prayed inaid of another whohad a larger estate, as of him

Court file

file, relating to the proceedings in the consistory court mean the totality of the documentation relating to a petition notwithstanding that for practical reasons some of the items may be kept in separate folders, Emmanuel Church (in

Crown suits

Crown Sutis Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 106), and suits against the Crown by the (English) Petition of Right Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c.34). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Crown'; Robertson on the Crown.

Custody

a compendious expression referring to the events on the happening of which the Magistrate can entertain a bail petition of an accused, Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 608 (613, 614). (Criminal Procedure Code,

De injuria sua propria absque tali causa

such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a

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