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Dispossession

the law provides for it. 'Dispossess' according to Black's Law Dictionary means: 'To oust from land by legal process; to eject, to exclude from realty.' The dispossession should have been, therefore, either by legal process or by

Detainer

original taking was lawful, 3 Steph. Com., and see DETINUE. Writ of, one of the five forms of process prescribed by the 2 Wm. 4, c. 39, s. 1, for the commencement of a personal action against

Bail to the action

Bail to the action, is the surety for a civil defendant arrested by a mesne process e.g. a process issued during the lawsuit. If the defendant lost the lawsuit, the bail to the action

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Declared

wider than the words 'found or made'. To declare is to announce opinion. Indeed, the latter involves the process, while the former expresses result. Inter-pretation, ascertainment and evolution are parts of the process, while that interpreted, ascertained

Date of such conviction

was construed to mean the date of the final and ultimate conviction on termination of the entire judicial process in the hierarchy of courts, sub-s. (3) would be redundant. Sub-s. (3) applies to a special category of

Contractor

Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (e)] Means a person who, in relation to a manufacturing process, undertakes to produce a given result by executing the work through contract labour or who engages labour for

Consultation

Jammu & Kashmir, (1982) 3 SCC 412: AIR 1982 SC 1579: (1983) 1 SCR 593. Consultation is a process which requires meeting of minds between the parties involved in the process of consultation on the material facts

Commission of rebellion

Commission of rebellion, an attaching process, formerly issuable out of Chancery, to enforce obedience to a process or decree; abolished by Order of 26th

Cinematograph film

pictures. (Cinematograph Act, 1952, s. 2) Means any work of visual recording on any medium produced through a process from which a moving image maybe produced by any means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual

Capias ad respondendum

Capias ad respondendum (that you take to answer). A process issued in cases of injury accompanied with force, or otherwise, against the defendant's person, when he neglected to

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