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intervention : the act or an instance of intervening ;specif : the act or procedure by which a third party becomes a party to a pending proceeding between other parties in order to protect his or her own interest in the subject matter of the suit compare impleader, interpleader, joinder NOTE: Intervention developed as a procedure in equity courts. There is some overlap between joinder and intervention because of the merger of law and equity in federal practice. intervention of right : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants an absolute right to intervene or when the applicant claims an interest in the subject of the proceeding that the applicant may be impeded from protecting by the disposition of the proceeding NOTE: Intervention of right will not be granted if the court considers that the applicant's interest is already adequately represented. permissive intervention : intervention allowed in federal civil procedure when a statute grants a condi...
Self-defence
Self-defence, is a legal right and as with other legal rights the question whether a specific state of facts warrants its exercise is a legal question. It is not a question on which a State is entitled, in any special sense, to be a judge in its own cause, the Law of Nations, 5th Edn., 1955, p. 319.Means the use of force to protect oneself, one's family, or one's property from a real or threatened attack, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364.Self-defence. both the life and limbs of a man are of such high value, in the estimation of the law of England, that it pardons even homicide, if committed se defendendo, or in order to preserve them. See DEFENCE; HOMICIDE.The use of force to protect oneself, one's family, or one's property from a real or threatined attack, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1364....
Sand-grouse
Sand-grouse are protected by the Sandgrouse Protection Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 55), as continued by the Expiring Laws Continuance Acts, in order that they may, if possible, become acclimatised....
Cultivating tenant
Cultivating tenant, a person should contribute physical labour to be within the ambit of s. 2(ee) of the said Act, S.N. Sudailaimuthu Chettiar v. Palaniyandaran, AIR 1966 SC 469: (1966) 1 SCR 450. [T.N. Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 2(a)(ee)]In order to fall within the definition of 'cultivating tenant' a person should carry on personal cultivation which again requires that he should contribute physical labour. The use of physical labour includes physical strain, the use of muscles and sinews. Mere supervision of work, or maintaining of accounts or distributing the wages will not be such contribution of physical labour as to attract the definition, L.R Ganapati Thevar v. N. Devasthanam, AIR 1969 SC 764: (1969) 1 SCR 508. [T.N. Cultivating Tenants Protection Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 2(a)(ee)]...
Controlled crop or plants
Controlled crop or plants, grown for any purpose, of the types or varieties of plants which are protected by the order in that area, and such additional kind of crops or plants whether grown or self-sown and whether of those or any other types or varieties, as may be specified in the order for the purpose of this definition in that area, Plant Varieties and Seeds Act, 1964, s. 33(4) (ii) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 623, p. 364....
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
Bailiff
Bailiff, a keeper or protector, an officer who puts in force an arresting process, or who is employed to distrain for rent, for which employment the certificate of a county court judge is required under the (English) Law of Distress Amendment Act, 1888.Bailiffs to execute county court processes are appointed under s. 28 of the (English) County Courts Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), to assist one or more 'high bailiffs' for each court. Also, land-steward. There are several kinds of bailiffs, whose offices and employments greatly differ from one another, yet they agree in that the keeping or protection of something belongs to them all.A Court officer who maintains order during court proceeding; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., 136.Means an officer of some courts in United States whose duty usually include keeping order in the court-room and guarding prisoners or jurers in deliberation, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 41....
Firman
In Turkey and some other Oriental countries a decree or mandate issued by the sovereign a royal order or grant generally given for special objects as to a traveler to insure him protection and assistance...
strict scrutiny
strict scrutiny : the highest level of judicial scrutiny that is applied esp. to a law that allegedly violates equal protection in order to determine if it is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest see also intermediate, rational basis test ...
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