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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

voluntary

of choice or agreement [ arbitration] c : made freely and with an understanding of the consequences [a plea of guilty] 2 : done by design or intention 3 : made without valuable consideration or for nominal

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,

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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

De ventre inspiciendo

De ventre inspiciendo, writ, an original process which issued out of Chancery on petition, for the security of the next heir (i.e., verus not h'res apparens), or on behalf of a tenant-in-tail,

Defender, advocate, pleader

Defender, advocate, pleader, a debender exerts himself in favour of one that wants support; and advocate signifies one who is called

Departure

Departure [fr. decessus, Lat.], in pleading, when a party deserts the ground that he took in his last antecedent pleading and resorts to another.

Desertion

divorce it must exist for a period of at least three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or where the offence appears as a cross-charge, of the answer. Desertion as a ground of divorce differs

Disposition

283. Carried out by the parties in good faith at a time when they were unaware that a petition had been presented would normally be validated unless there are grounds for thinking that the transaction was an

Disposition of the company's property

Disposition of the company's property, where a company pays a creditor by cheque between the date of petition and the winding up order against the company, it is illogical to hold that there is an additional

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