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First hearing of application

Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 does not mean the day fixed for return of the summons or the returnable day but the day when the Court applies its mind to the case, Sham Lal v. Atma Nand

King's Bench

wherever he went, for which reason all process issuing out of this Court in the King's name was returnable 'ubicunque fuerimus in Anglia.' For some centuries, and until the opening of the Royal Courts, the court usually

Originating summons

Originating summons, a summons without writ, returnable in the chambers of a judge of the High Court. summonses of this description are very frequently issued

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Pone

writ obtained from the cursitor, bearing teste after the entry of the plaint in the County Court, and returnable on a general day in term, wheresoever, etc. It was also the proper writ to remove all suits

Procedendo

or refusal, the judges of the inferior Court might be punished for their contempt by writ of attachment, returnable in the courts at Westminster, 3 Bl. Com. 109. It also lay where an action had been removed

nonreturnable

be returned for a refund of purchased goods or containers for purchased items as nonreturnable bottles Opposite of returnable

Bailment

has been held to be a bailee in certain circumstances. Just as a finder of property has to return it when its owner is found and demands it, so the State Government was bound to return the

Deposit

estate. Also a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the bailor without recompense, and to be returned when the bailor shall require it. The appellation and the definition are both derived from the civil law.

Income

The definition of 'income' in Shaw Wallace & Co. case, 1932 (59) IA 206, as a periodical monetary return coming in with some sort of regularity, or expected regularity, from definite sources must be read with reference

Materially affected

Materially affected, What s. 100 requires is that the High Court before it declares the election of a returned candidate is void should be of opinion that the result of the election insofar as it concerns a

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