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Need

'needs' suggests that there has to be a necessity for a decision by the Supreme Court on the question, and such a necessity can be said to exist when, for instance, two views are possible regarding the

Necessary party, Proper party

effective order can be made but whose presence is necessary for a complete and final decision on the question involved in the proceeding. The addition of parties is generally not a question of initial jurisdiction of the

National insurance

give a bare outline of the two branches of National Insurance, and for the determination of any particular question reference should be made to the Acts themselves and the regulations made thereunder; see also Chitty's Statutes, tit.

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Motion

of a company. As to the notice of motion and procedure generally, see R.S.C., Ord. LII. Motion, every question to be decided by the House must be proposed by a member in the form of a motion,

Judicial Act

with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties, and in deciding the objections raised he hears the

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

Feigned issue

2 Wm. 4, c. 58). Before the Gaming Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 109), s. 19, questions of fact were often tried by means of a pretended wager between the parties interested. But by the

Irrationality

of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who had applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it, State of NCT of Delhi v. Sanjeev, (2005) 5 SCC

Interim orders/interlocutory orders

a case, fall under one or the other of the following categories: (i) Orders which finally decide a question or issue in controversy in the main case. (ii) Orders which finally decide an issue which materially and

Hearsay evidence

general rule as to the inadmissibility of hearsay evidence are the follow-ing: (1) dying declarations; (2) hearsay in questions of pedigree; (3) hearsay on questions of public right, customs, boundaries, etc.; (4) admissibility of old leases, rent-rolls,

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