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Amendment

and all such amendments shall be made as may be necessary for the purpose of determining the real questions in controversy between the parties. This is the general principle. The remaining rules of the Order prescribe the

Cumulative legacies

so called to distinguish them from egacies which are merely repeated. In the construction of testamentary instruments, the question often arises, whether where a testator has twice bequeathed a legacy to the same person, the legatee is

Court of record

jurisdiction or not. Unlike a Court of limited jurisdiction, the superior Court is entitled to determine for itself questions about its own jurisdiction, Ravi S. Naik v. Union of India, (1994) Supp 2 SCC 641: AIR 1994

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Common stock or common hotchpot

which the coparcener throws his separate property to the common stock is a unilateral act. There is no question of either the family rejecting or accepting it. By his individual volition he renounces his individual right in

Common carrier

Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to

Commencement of proceedings

Commencement of proceedings, the expression 'commencement of the proceedings' would mean the commencement of proceedings in which the question as to the conclusive character of the registration, as laid down in s. 32 of the Trade and

Confession to a priest

the bar, the view is taken that it is not improbable that an English Court would decide the question in favour of the inviolability of confession and expand the law into harmony with that of other Christian

Charities, or Public Trusts

charities shall be construed as 'references to charities within the meaning of the said Preamble.' In general the question whether a gift is charitable depends not on whether it may, but whether it must be applied to

Appeal

AIR 2003 SC 2434. (Civil PC, 1908, s. 96 and 100) An appeal, is one in which the question is, whether the order of the court from which the appeal is brought was right on the material

Case stated

view to a prompt decision. By R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXXIV., the parties after writ may concur in stating questions of law in the form of a special case, or if it appear to the court or a

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