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Step or proceeding
'first hearing' meant the first date for any step or proceedings mentioned in the summons served on the defendant. The step or proceeding mentioned in the summons referred to in the definition should be construed to be
Special damage
Special damage, such a loss as the law will not presume to be the consequence of the defendant's act, but which depends in part at least on the special circumstances of the case. It must therefore
Sentence
of Maharashtra, (1977) Mah LJ 338. Means the judgment that a court formally pronoun-ces after finding a criminal defendant guilty, the punishment imposed on a criminal wrongdoer, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1367. The expression 'sentence'
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Payment of Money into Court
is entirely the creature of Statute (Odgers on Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction)
Right to begin
the issue is on the plaintiff, he, in general, has a right to begin. If in replevin the defendant avow for rent in arrear, and the plaintiff reply reins in arrear, the plaintiff must begin. In any
Reus
Reus, a defendant, properly the debtor to whom the question was put. Rei, the parties or litigants, Cum. C.L. 251. Means
Respondeat ouster
that he shall answer. Also, if a prisoner fail upon a plea in bar, he has judgment of respondent ouster, and may plead over to the offence the general issue, not guilty, Steph. Com., 7th ed., iii.
Relicta verificatione
was withdrawn, it was called a confession or cognovit actionem relicta verification, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. Formerly, a defendant who had pleaded a bad plea which was demurred to, could withdraw it by entering a relicta verificatione,
Rejoinder
Rejoinder, a defendant's answer to a plaintiff's reply, which must have been delivered within four days after notice, unless the defendant
Reasonable doubt
2 SCR 363: (1979) 1 SCC 355. The doubt that prevents one from being firmly convinced of a defendant's guilt, or the belief that there is a real possibility that a defendant is not guilty, Black's Law
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