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Revise

To look at again for the detection of errors to reeumlxamine to review to look over with care for correction as to revise a writing to revise a translation...

Revise

Revise, the word 'revise' meaning 'to re-examine, to review, to correct or to amend the fault', is not hedged or qualified by any condition or limitation, Ram Kanai Jamini Ranjan Pal Pvt. Ltd. v. Member Board of Revenue, AIR 1976 SC 1545: (1976) 3 SCC 369: (1976) Supp SCR 110. [Bengal Fiance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, s. 20(3)]...

Statute Law Revision Acts

Statute Law Revision Acts. A number of general Acts were passed from the year 1861 to 1927 inclusive, for the purpose of expressly and specifically repealing Acts or parts of Acts which had been either impliedly repealed by subsequent statutes on the ground that leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant, or which (see the preambles to the various Acts) 'might be regarded as spent, or had by lapse of time or otherwise become unnecessary' from various causes, or had become obsolete, and also partly with the view of clearing the way for two editions of 'Statutes Revised,' that is, statutes in force only, as distinguished from the 'Statutes at Large,' or statutes just as they are passed. In 1890, as explained in an Introductory Note to vol. 4 of the 2nd edition of the Revised Statutes, a Select Committee of the House of Commons considered the subject of statute law revision, and recommended the omission from the Revised Statutes of 'any preambles' [but see that title] 'to an act, or in...

Revisal

The act of revising or reviewing and reeumlxamining for correction and improvement revision as the revisal of a manuscript the revisal of a proof sheet the revisal of a treaty...

Revising assessors

Revising assessors, two officers elected by the bur-gesses of non-parliamentary municipal boroughs for the purpose of assisting the mayor in revising the parish burgess lists (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 29, and Sch. III.); but their duties were transferred to the revising barristers, and their office abolished by the County Electors Act, 1888....

Revision

The act of revising reeumlxamination for correction review as the revision of a book or writing or of a proof sheet a revision of statutes...

Appeal and revision

Appeal and revision, the expression 'revision' is meant to convey the idea of a much narrower jurisdiction than that conveyed by the expression 'appeal', Sri Raja Lakshmi Dyeing Works v. Rangaswamy Chettiar, (1980) 4 SCC 259. [T.N. Bulding (Lease and Rent Control) Act 1960, s. 25]...

Revised Statutes

Revised Statutes. A republication by Government authority of such public general statutes as are still unrepealed, or parts of them. See ACT OF PARLIAMENT....

Revised Reports

Revised Reports. A republication of such cases in the English Courts of Law and Equity from 1785 to 1865 as are still of practical utility. Edited by Sir F. Pollock....

Reviser

One who revises...

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