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Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)

our popylation.' The Criminal Code Commission, which sat in 1878, made proposals as to criminal appeal on a point of law and on a questionof fact, and these proposals have been adopted by most of our colonies;

Non est factum

defendant's deed; under this, the defendant might contend at the trial that the deed was never executed in point of fact; but he could not deny its validity in point of law. And see Howatson v. Webb,

Parabola

surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides It is a curve any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point called the focus and a fixed straight line called

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Run

Run, to take effect in point of place, as to the king's writ in given localities; or in point of time, as of the

That is to say

the words 'that is to say, must vary with the context ....... But in the context of single point sales tax, subject to special conditions when imposed on separate categories of specified goods, the expression was apparently

Unauthorised occupation

and in pursuance of any allotment, lease or grant. That Act, therefore, lays special stress on only one point, namely, the entry into possession. Thus, if the entry into possession had taken place prior to the passing

Zero

Zero, is a lowest point or lowest in order, Webster's Third New International Dictionary. It is a mathematical value, intermediate between negative and

Dedicated transmission lines

Dedicated transmission lines, 'dedicated trans-mission lines' means any electric supply-line for point to point transmission which are required for the purpose of connecting electric lines or electric plants of a

Procedure established by law

621 (674): (1978) 1 SCC 248 (283)] (SCC p. 283, para 7): 'We must reiterate here what was pointed out by the majority in E.P. Royappa v. State of Tamil Nadu, (1974) 2 SCR 348: (1974) 4

Course

Course, 'course' ordinarily conveys the meaning of a continuous progress from one point to the next in time or space and conveys the idea of a period of time; duration and

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