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Reconstitute

Reconstitute, 'Reconstitute', according to its plain natural connotation, means nothing else than constitute again, G.V. Gunayya Chetty v. V. Desarathamaiah, AIR 1975 SC 1277: (1975) 2 SCC 114: (1975) Supp SCR 219. [A.P. Agricultural Produce and Livestock Markets Act, 1966, s. 5(1)(iv), Proviso]...


Colonial Laws (English)

Colonial Laws (English). The validity of laws passed by colonial legislature is established by the Statute of Westminster, 1931, which enacts, subject to the provisions of the Act, that the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865, shall not apply to any law made after December 11th, 1931, by the Parliament of a Dominion. Also that no law made by the Parliament of a Dominion be void on the ground that it is repugnant to the law of England. The Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 63) enacts that no colonial law shall be void for repugnancy to the law of England, unless it be repugnant to the provisions of some Act of Parliament extending to the colony, or to any Order made under authority of such Act, or having in the colony the force and effect of such Act. In the case of such repugnancy the colonial law shall be void to the extent thereof and not otherwise. By the same Act all colonial legislatures are empowered to establish courts of judicature, and to abolish and reconstitute...


High Court

High Court, means any court which is deemed for the purposes of this Constitution to be a High Court for any State and includes--(a) any Court in the territory of India constituted or reconstituted under this Constitution as a High Court, and(b) any other Court in the territory of India which may be declared by Parliament by law to be a High Court for all or any of the purposes of this Con-stitution. [Constitution of India, Article 366(14)]The High Court in s. 10F of the Companies Act means the High Court having jurisdiction in relation to the place at which the registered office of the company concerned is situate as indicated by s. 2(11) read with s. 10(1) (a) of the Act, Strideuell Leathers (P) Ltd. v. Bhankepur Simbhaoli Beverages Ltd., AIR 1994 SC 158 (165): (1994) 1 SCC 34. (Companies Act, 1956, s. 10F)Every High Court shall be a Court of record meaning thereby all the original record of the Court will be preserved by the said Court and it shall have all the powers of such a supe...


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