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Save as otherwise provided by the Court

Save as otherwise provided by the Court, the prohibition in s. 362 against the court altering or reviewing its judgment is subject to what is 'otherwise provided by this court or by any other law for the time being in force'. Those words, however, refer to those provisions only where the court has been expressly authorised by the Code or other law to alter or review its judgment. The inherent power of the court is not contemplated by the saving provision contained in s. 362, Sooraj Devi v. Pyare Lal, AIR 1981 SC 736: (1981) 1 SCC 500: (1981) 2 SCR 485....


Falsification

Falsification.1. Pedigree.--For a vendor or mortgagor or other person disposing of property or any interest therein for money or money's worth to a purchaser of land or chattels real or personal, or for his solicitor or other agent to conceal from the purchaser any instrument or incumbrance material to the title or to falsify any pedigree upon which the title may depend, in order to induce a purchaser or mortgagee or his solicitor to accept the title offered, is a misdemeanour punishable by fine or imprisonment with or without hard labour, or both, for not more than two years, by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 183, extend-ing the (English) Law of Property Amendment Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 35), s. 24 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Conveyancing'), and the falsifier is also liable to an action for damages by the same enactment. The fiat of the Attorney-General is required before comm-encing a prosecution. [(English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183]2. Official Documents.--Making any mat...


Abduction

Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...


Clerical or arithmetical error

Clerical or arithmetical error, A clerical or arithmetical error is an error occasioned by an accidental slip or omission of the court. It represents that which the the court never intended to say. It is an error apparent on the face of the record and does not depend for its discovery on argument or disputation. An arithmetical error is a mistake of calculation, and a clerical error is a mistake in writing or typing, Sooraj Devi v. Pyare Lal, (1981) 2 SCR 485: (1981) 1 SCC 500: AIR 1981 SC 736 (738). [Criminal Procedure Code (2 of 1974) s. 362]...


Married women's property

Married women's property, At Common Law, a woman, by marrying, transferred the ownership of all her property, real and personal, present and future, to her husband absolutely, so that he might sell, pay his debts out of, give away, or dispose by will of it as he pleased, with these exceptions and modifications:-1) Her freehold estate became his to manage and take the profits of during the joint lives only. After his death, leaving her surviving, it passed to her absolutely; after her death, leaving him surviving, provided that it was an estate in possession and issue who could in her it had been born during the marriage, it passed to him as 'tenant by the curtesy (q.v.) of England,' during his life, and after his death to her heir-at-law.(2) Her leasehold estate, her personal estate in expectancy, and the debts owing to her and other 'choses in action,' became his absolutely if he did some act to appropriate or reduce them into possession during the marriage, or if he survived her. If ...


Workmen's Compensation Act

Workmen's Compensation Act. (English) The Workmen's Compensation Act, 1897, introduced the principle of compulsory insurance of workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908) and Employers Liability Act, 1880, sub tit. MASTER AND SERVANT), and an employer is not liable both for damages and compensation; but the workman or his representatives may elect between the remedies, and in an unsuccessful action for damages the Court may assess or refer the question of compensation to the proper tribunal, subject to an equitable order for costs (Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925, s. 25). Compensation is not payable for a...


King's Bench

King's Bench. The Court of King's or Queen's bench (so called because the King used formerly to sit there in person (though the judges determined the causes), the style of the Court still being coram ipso rege, or coram ipsa regina) was a Court of record, and the Supreme Court of Common Law in the kingdom, consisting of a chief justice and four puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace and supreme coroners of the land.This court, which was the remnant of the aula regia, was not, nor could be, from the very nature and constitution of it, fixed to any certain place, but might follow the King's person 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 sat at Westminster, being an ancient palace of the Crown, but might remove with the King as he thought proper to command.The jurisdict...


Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance

Acknowledgement of a wife's assurance. If, before 1st January, 1925 [see (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 167], a woman married before 1883 disposed of her estate or interest in lands or her revisionary interest in personal property she was required, unless her title thereto had accrued since 1882, or unless she was entitled thereto for her separate use to comply with the formalities prescribed by the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 74), ss. 77-91, with regard to land, and by 20 & 21 Vict. C. 57, commonly called (English) 'Malins's Act,' which incorporated the procedure of the (English) Fines and Recoveries Act, with regard to reversionary interests in personal estate.The (English) Fines and Recoveries Act requiredthe acknowledgment to be made before two commissioners, but the 7th section of the (English) Conveyancing Act, 1882, substituted one only, and also dispensed with the affidavit and certificate of acknowledgment required by the former Act; se...


Lord Mayor's Court in London

Lord Mayor's Court in London. An inferior [Cox v. Mayor of London, (1867) LR 2 HL 239] Court of the king, held before the lord mayor and aldermen. Its practice and procedure were amended and its powers enlarged by the Mayor's Court of London Procedure Act, 1857. In this Court the recorder presided, or, in his absence, the common serjeant (s. 43), or the assistant judge appointed under the Borough Courts of Record Act, 1872. The Mayor's and City of London Court Act, 1920, amalgamated the City of London Court (see that title) (the jurisdiction of which was that of county Court) with the Mayor's Court, and by the County Court Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 53), s. 186, now to be deemed a county Court, subject to the Mayor's Court Act of 1920, and the London (City) Small Debts Extension Act, 1852, with all its powers, rights and privileges preserved; and see Bowater & Sons Ltd. v. Davidson's Paper Sales, (1936) 1 KB 465. The conjoint Court thus established has all the powers and jurisdictio...


Queen's Bench Division

Queen's Bench Division, means the English court, formerly known as the Queen's Bench or King's Bench, that presides over tort and contract actions, applications for judicial review, and some Magistrate-court appeals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1259.The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench was assigned, by s. 34 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1873, to the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; and by Order in Council under s. 32 of the same Act, the Common Pleas and Exchequer Divisions were, in February 1881, merged in the same 'Queen's Bench Division,' which began to be styled, after the death of the late Queen Victoria in January, 1901, the 'King's Bench Division.' As to assignment of business to, see (English) Jud. Act, 1925, s. 56 (2)....


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