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Rules of Court

as to the Common Law Courts, which promulgated consecutive Rules without any division into Orders, Day's Common Law Procedure Acts; and as to the Court of Chancery, which promulgated Orders subdivided into Rules, Morgan's Chancery Acts and

Law

or law in the abstract sense embodying the principles of natural justice, and 'procedure established by law' means procedure established by law made by the State, that is to say, by the Union Parliament or the Legislatives

Imprisonment

(English) Summary Jurisdiction (Appeals) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 38); this Act now regulates the procedure on appeal to Quarter Sessions; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.' Important alterations in the law relating to imprisonment have

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Procedure

Procedure, 'procedure' in Article 21 cannot be arbitrary, unfair or unreasonable, Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India, AIR 1978 … SCR 621. The mode in which the successive steps in litigation are taken. The procedure of the Common Law courts was regulated by the C.L.P. Acts of 1852, 1854, and 1860; as to which see Day's C.L.P.

rule

(1990)"] b : a usually judicially promulgated regulation having the force of law that governs judicial practice or procedure [s of evidence] [s of appellate procedure] see also rule of court c : rule of law 3

substantive law

or defines rights, duties, obligations, and causes of action that can be enforced by law compare adjective law, procedural law NOTE: There are restrictions on applying new substantive law (as statutory or case law) retroactively.

Bail

extinct, but it may still be required in actions of ejectment brought by landlords. See (English) Common Law Procedure Act, 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 76), ss. 213, 215 and 216. Bail in criminal cases is

Legal representative

It has the meaning assigned to it in clause (11) of section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957, s. 2 (lb)] It means a person who in law represents the estate of

judgment

of default against a party for failure to appear, to file a pleading, or to take other required procedural steps called also judgment by default compare decree pro confesso at decree deficiency judgment : a judgment in … decree declaratory judgment : a judgment declaring a right or establishing the legal status or interpretation of a law or instrument [seeking a declaratory judgment that the regulation is unconstitutional] compare damage, injunction specific performance at performance

Certiorari

Statutes, tit. 'Certiorari'). The Statute Law Revision Act of 1888 repeals 13 Geo. 2, c. 18, so that procedure on certiorari in a very great measure depends on Rules of Court alone. For the very numerous cases

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