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Home Dictionary Name: provincial courtsProvincial Courts
Provincial Courts, the several archiepiscopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England....
Arches, Court of
Arches, Court of [fr. curia de arcubus, Lat.], a court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the judge of which is called the Dean of the Arches, because his Court was anciently held in the church of Saint Mary-le-Bow (Sancta Maria de arcubus), so named from the steeple, which is raised upon pillars, built archwise. It was formerly held, as also were the other principal Spiritual Courts, in the hall belonging to the College of Civilians, commonly called Doctors' Commons. It is now held at the Church House, Westminster. Its proper jurisdiction is only over the 13 peculiar parishes belonging to the Archbishop in London, but the office of Dean of the Arches having been for a long time united to that of the Archbishiop's Official Principal, the Dean of the Arches, in right of such added office, receives and determines appeals from the sentences of all Inferior Ecclesiastical Courts within the province. There was formerly an appeal to the king in Chancery, or to a Court of De...
Master of the Faculties
Master of the Faculties, an officer under the archbishop, who grants licences and dispensations, etc. The judge of the provincial Courts of Canterbury and York appointed under s. 7 of the (English) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, became ex officio Master of the Faculties on the first vacancy occurring after the passing of that Act....
Mofussil dewanny adawiut
Mofussil dewanny adawiut, provincial Court of justice, Ibid....
Contrary to law and not according to law
Contrary to law and not according to law, a decision being 'contrary to law' as provided in s. 100(1)(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure is not the same thing as a decision being not 'according to law' as prescribed in the 1st proviso of s. 75(1) of the Act. The latter expression is wider in ambit than the former. It is neither desirable nor possible to give an exhaustive definition of the expression 'according to law'. The power given to the High Court under the Ist proviso to s. 75(1) of the Act is similar to that given to it under s. 25 of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act, Malini Ayyappa Naicker v. Seth Monghraj Udhavdas Firm, (1969) 1 SCC 688: AIR 1969 SC 1344 (1346). [Provincial Insolvency Act, 1920, s. 75(1); Civil Procedure Code 1908, s. 100(1)(a)]...
Chancery Court of York
Chancery Court of York. See 37 & 38 Vict. c. 85, s. 7, and ARCHES COURT.The ecclesiatical court of province of York, responsible for appeals from provincial diocesan courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
In accordance with law
In accordance with law, when they used the word 'in accordance with law' in cl. 3 of Schedule 2 of the C.P. and Berar Industrial Disputes Settlement Act, 1947 is used, they did not intend to exclude the law as settled by the Industrial Courts. Provincial Transport Services v. State Industrial Cour,t AIR 1963 SC 114: (1963) 3 SCR 650. [C.P. and Berar Industrial Disputes Settlement Act, 1947 Sch. II, Item 3]...
Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...
Law
Law [fr. lage, lagea, or lah, Sax.; loi, Fr.; legge, Ital.; lex, fr. ligo, Lat., to bind], a rule of action to which men are obliged to make their conduct conformable. A command, enforced by some sanction, to acts or forbearances of a class: see Austin's Jurisprudence; 1 Bl. Com. 38. A principle of conduct may be observed habitually by an individual or a class. When sufficiently formulated or defined to be observed uniformly by the whole of a class it may become a custom; or it may be imposed on all individuals who consent or are unable to resist its application and the sanction or penalty which is imposed for non-compliance, and in that case it becomes a law. If, in addition, the law and its sanction are imposed by, or by authority of a sovereign, the law becomes 'positive' (see Austin's Jurisprudence). Short of positive law the principle may be called a moral or social law. Generally speaking, jurisprudence is concerned only with positive law, and law in its ordinary legal sense mean...
Curia
Curia, a court of justice. Also the class from which, in the Roman provincial towns, the magistrates were eligible....
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