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High Court of Justice

viz.: '(1) The High Court of Chancery; (2) The Court of King's Bench; (3) The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster; (4) The Court of Exchequer; (5) The Court of Admiralty; (6) The Court of Probate; (7)

County palatine

Act, 1925, s. 18, replacing (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 16, the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and of the Court of Pleas at Durham is transferred to the High Courtof Justice. But

Common bench

Common bench [fr. banc., Sax., bench], a name of the Court of Common Pleas. Thus the 'Common Bench Reports' are the reports of the cases decided in the Court of Common Pleas.

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Non concessit

Non concessit (he did not grant), a plea resorted to by a stranger to a deed, because estoppels do not hold with respect to strangers. This

True copy

(1984) 2 SCC 1: (1985) 2 SCR 278. The object of serving a 'true copy' of an election petition and the affidavit filed in support of the allegations of corrupt practice on the respondent in the election

Suppliant

Suppliant, the actor in, or party preferring, a petition of right. See PETITION DE DROIT.

Relief

has taken all reasonable means to prevent, he can apply or relief at the trial of an election petition, or if no petition is on the record, to the High Court, under Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention

Receiving order

Receiving order. An order of the court on the petition of a creditor, or of the debtor himself, granted for the protection of the estate on an act

Recaption

Recaption, the taking a second distress of one formerly distrained, during the plea grounded on the former distress; and it was a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being

Nul tiel agard

Nul tiel agard (no such award), a plea traversing an award under this plea a defendant could not object to the award in point of law,

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