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Habitual
Balkrishna Wamon Dande, AIR 2000 SC 1414 (1416): (2000) 4 SCC 126. (Rent Control and Eviction) A habitual offender or a person habitually addicted to crime is one who is a criminal by habit or by disposition … Habitual, means repeated several times. Management of Monghyr Factory of I.T.C. Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1978 SC 1428 (1434): (1978)
bill
of peace : an equitable bill used to settle the rights of parties in one suit and avoid repeated litigation bill of review : an equitable bill used to start a suit to have the final judgment … by the plaintiff) and who has no interest in the subject matter and no preference as to which defendant prevails called also strict bill of interpleader compare bill in the nature of interpleader in this entry interpleader
Judge
is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the … Gorrie, (1895) 1 QB 671; Scott v. Stansfield, (1868) LR 3 Ex 220. In the latter case the defendant had said to the plaintiff (an accountant and scrivener), while trying a case in which he was defendant,
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Jeopardy
legal jeopardy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839. Double is the subjection of an accused person to repeated trial for the same alleged offence, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 154. In India, no … Jeopardy, means the risk of conviction and punish-ment that a criminal defendant faces at trial. Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial when the jury is empaneled, and in a Bench
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