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Introductory previous preceding the main discourse or business prefatory as preliminary observations to a discourse or book preliminary articles to a treaty preliminary measures preliminary examinations...
preliminary
preliminary : coming before and usually serving as a temporary or intermediate step to something [ negotiations] [a payment plan] preliminary n ...
preliminary examination
preliminary examination : preliminary hearing at hearing ...
Preliminary decree
Preliminary decree, a preliminary decree is one which declares the rights and liabilities of the parties leaving the actual result to be worked out in further proceedings, Shankar Balwant Lokhande v. Chandrakant Shankar Lokhande, AIR 1995 SC 1211 (1212)....
Preliminary point
Preliminary point, is not confined to such legal points only as may be pleaded in bar of a suit but comprehends all points or issues, whether of facts or law, determination of which has precluded the necessity for determining other points or issues which have, therefore, been left undetermined, Vassantimal Devaldas v. Hiromal Mohammal, AIR 1947 Sind 94: 1946 ILR Kar 380: 227 IC 633.Means a point, the decision of which is sufficient to dispose off the whole suit without the necessity of deciding other points involved in the case. It may be one of facts of law. It would include a point which relates to cause of action for the plaintiff or his 'locus standi' to bring to particular suit, Jit Kuarg Kehar Singh, AIR 1951 Pepsu 130.Preliminary point, refers to a point, the decision of which is sufficient to dispose of the whole suit without the necessity of deciding other points involved in the case, Jit Kaur v. Kehar Singh, AIR 1951 Pepsu 364....
preliminary hearing
preliminary hearing see hearing ...
preliminary injunction
preliminary injunction see injunction ...
Preliminary Act (English)
Preliminary Act (English), a document stating the time and place of a collision between vessels, the names of the vessels, and other particulars required to be filed by each solicitor in actions for damages by such collision. See R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 28....
Preliminary objection
Preliminary objection, is one that is raised to the sustainability of an application or action on the basis of the assumption of the truth of all the averments of facts made in the suit, or in the application or plaint, and is, therefore, one that can be taken in argument though not raised in the written defence, Prabhakar Gerland Walter v. Chief Secretary, AIR 1953 Tr & Coch 286: 1953 ILR TR & Coch 118....
Judgment
Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court.Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is now used generally except in matrimonial causes, the term 'judgment' including 'decree' [(English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 225, replacing Jud. Act,1873, s. 100].The several species of judgments are either:-(a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY; SUMMONSES; and ORDERS; and the various titles of the subjects of such judgments as MANDAMUS; INJUNC-TION, etc.(b) Final, putting an end to the action by an award of redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be.By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant having obtained a verd...
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