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Statutory Rules and Orders

Statutory Rules and Orders. Very numerous Acts of Parliament, especially those passed in recent years, empower the Sovereign in Council,

Rule

Rule, is made in exercise of a power conferred by any enactment; also includes a regulation made as a … a rule under any enactment, Sukhdev Singh v. BhagatramSardar Singh Raghuvanshi, AIR 1975 SC 1331: (1975) 1 SCC 421: (1975) 3 SCR 619. Rule shall means a rule made in exercise of a power conferred by any

Void decree, illegal decree

Void decree, illegal decree, the distinction between a decree which is void and a decree which is wrong, incorrect, irregular or not in accordance with law cannot be overlooked or ignored. Where a court lacks inherent...

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Rule of law

Rule of law, executive instructions cannot override the provisions of law, such a method will destroy the very basis … doctrine, principle or precept applied to the facts of an appropriate case, Wright v. Wright, 904 P 2d 403 (1995). Rule of law, the binding character of judgments pronounced by courts of competent jurisdiction is itself an

Decree nisi

Decree nisi. By the (English) Judicature Act,1925, s. 183(1) every decree for a divorce or for nullity of marriage shall, in the first instance, be a decree nisi not to be made absolute until after the...

hearsay rule

the admission of hearsay as evidence NOTE: The hearsay rule is stated in Rule 802 of the Federal Rules of Evidence. Hearsay is inadmissible as evidence because of the unavailability of cross-examination to test the accuracy of

interpretive rule

in the Administrative Procedure Act for notice to the public and opportunity for comment that apply to legislative rules. An interpretive rule does not have the force of law.

per se rule

per se rule 1 : a generalized rule applied without consideration for specific circumstances [would go even further and apply a

Decree for money or other property

Decree for money or other property, a 'decree' for declaration of title to money or other property is not a decree for money or other property. The expression 'decree for money or other property' means only...

Rule making clause

Edn., 2001, p. 539. The clause in a Bill which delegates the power to the executive to make rules and regulations for administering the various provisions contained in the same, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997,

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