Plenary

Full entire complete absolute as a plenary license plenary authority...

Plenary, full, complete; an ordinary proceeding through all its gradations and formal steps, opposed to summary.Plenary causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts re reduced to the following:(1) Suits for ecclesiastical dilapidations.(2) Suits relating to seats or sitting-places in churches.(3) Suits for tithes....

plenary

plenary : full and complete in every respect: as a : absolute [ power] b : fully attended or constituted [a session of the legislature] c : including all steps in due order [a proceeding] compare summary ...

Plenariness

Quality or state of being plenary...

summary

summary : done immediately, concisely, and without usual formal procedures ;esp : used in or done by summary proceeding compare plenary sum·mar·i·ly [sə-mer-ə-lē] adv ...

Plenarily

In a plenary manner...

Plene

Full complete plenary...

Claim in equity

Claim in equity. In simple cases, where there was not any great conflict as to facts, and a discovery from a defendant was not sought, but a reference to chambers was nevertheless necessary before final decree, which would be as of course, all parties being before the court, the summary proceeding by claim was sometimes adopted, thus obviating the recourse to plenary and protracted pleadings. This summary practice was created by Orders 22nd April, 1850, which came into operation on the 22nd May following. By Order VIII., Rule 4 of Consolid. Ord. 1860, claims were abolished....

Common Pleas, the Court of

Common Pleas, the Court of, so called because its original jurisdiction was to determine controversies between subject and subject, one of the three Superior Courts of Common Law at Westminster, presided over by a lord chief justice and five (formerly four) puisne, judges. It was detached from the King's Court (Aula Regis) as early as the reign of Richard I., and the 14th clause of Magna Charta enacted that it should not follow the King's Court, but be held in some certain place. Its jurisdiction was altogether confined to civil matters, having no cognizance in criminal cases, and was concurrent with that of the King' Bench and Exchequer in personal actions and ejectment. It had a peculiar or exclusive jurisdiction in the following cases:-(I.) Formal or plenary.(1) Real actions, under the C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26.(2) Under the (English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 125), over petitions complaining of an undue return or undue election of a member of Parliament.(II....

Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure

Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure, when a legislature is given plenary power to legislate on a particular subject there must also be an implied power to make laws incidental to the exercise of such power. It is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that everything necessary to the exercise of a power is included in the grant of the power. A legislature cannot certainly strip itself of its essential functions and vest the same on an extraneous authority. The primary duty of law making has to be discharged by the legislature itself but delegation may be resorted to as a subsidiary or an ancillary measure, Edward Mills Co. v. State of Ajmer, AIR 1955 SC 25 (32) (Constitution of India, Art. 245)....

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