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Assessors

call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and try and hear the matter in question wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessors. By the County Courts Act, 1934, s. 88, replacing

Arrest

within a period of twenty-four hours of such arrest. [Constitution of India, Articles 22(1) and (2)] Arrest, mere questioning by police under suspicion is not an arrest, State of Rajasthan v. Daulat Ram, (2005) 7 SCC 36.

Arbitration

by the Court, state in the form of a special case for the opinion of the Court any question of law arising in the course of the reference. See Tabernacle Building Society v. Knight, 1892, AC 298.

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Arbitrariness

Arbitrariness, the meaning and true import of arbitrariness is more easily visualized than precisely stated or defined. The question, whether an impugned act is arbitrary or not, is ultimately to be answered on the facts and in

Apportionment

e.g., upon surrender, release, grant or devise of part of demised land. The right to apportionment is a question of law, the apportionment may be by consent or by judicial process or, under the Landlord and Tenant

Act of State doctrine

Act of State doctrine, common law principle that prevents U.S. Courts from questioning the validity of a foreign country's sovereign acts within its own territory; as originally formulated by the U.S.

Any property

of 'property' in law. Off course, the property must be heritable property in respect to which alone the question of succession may legitimately arise, Angurbala Mullick v. Debabrata Mullick, AIR 1951 SC 293 (297): 1951 SCR 1125.

Any Person present in the court

in the said cause but where there is no cause pending before the court for its determination, the question of obtaining for the purposes of comparison of the handwriting of a person may not arise at all

American Law

Code Napoleon. Though the decisions of the Courts of the United States are often helpful in elucidating analogous questions, and accordingly are frequently quoted in text-books by English writers and sometimes cited in argument, they have no

Aid prayer

the tenant for life, etc., from the reversioner or remainderman, when the title to the inheritance was in question. It was a plea in suspension of the action, Com. Dig. 'Abide,' B. 5.

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