Relief - Law Dictionary Search Results
Injunction
Cotton Corporation of India v. United Industries Ltd., AIR 1983 SC 1272 (1277): (1983) 4 SCC 625. [Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 41(b)] This is the discretionary process of preventive and remedial justice, whereby a person is
Jesuits
1540, its main object being to stem the tide of the Reformation by active propaganda. The Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7), by ss. 28-37, rendered Jesuits liable to banishment on conviction on
Judgment
Gyangirji Narsinggirji Math v. Raja Dhanrajgirji Raja Narsingh Girji, AIR 1967 Bom 94. Mere refusal to give interim relief in a litigation where ultimately the relief claimed maybe granted would not amount to a judgment within the
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Lawful, Legal
not illegal against law or even permissible. Lawful is wider in connotation than legal. Although provision in Specific Relief Act empowering a person or tenant to recover possession if he has been evicted forcibly by the landlord,
Material facts
action or defendant's defence depends and which must be proved in order to establish the plaintiff's right to relief claimed in plaint or defendant's defence in written statement, Mayar (H.K.) Ltd. v. Owner & Parties Vessel M.V.
Patent medicine
secret process or protected by letters-patent, or which have been advertised as beneficial to the prevention, cure, or relief of any ailment or disorder affecting the human body. Under the (English) Medicine Stamp Acts, 1802 and 1804,
Petition de droit (Petition of Right UK)
the Home Secretary. A judgment that the suppliant is entitled to the whole or some portion of the relief sought by his petition, or to such other relief as the Court may think right, has the same
Settlement
a poor person in a particular parish, to which is attached a right, first regulated by the Poor Relief Act, 1662 (14 Car. 2, c. 12), to be maintained by that parish and a liability to be
Proceeding
administrative proceeding, Nathibai v. Maheshwari Samaj Ramola Trust, AIR 1997 MP 19. It includes execution proceedings also, Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 22. Proceeding, is a term of wide amplitude. It means a prescribed course of action
Quia timet
anticipated future injury that cannot be prevented by the present action. The doctrine of 'quia timet' permits equitable relief based on a concern over future probable injury to certain rights or interest, where anticipated future injury cannot
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