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Salutary

Wholesome healthful promoting health as salutary exercise...

Helpful

Furnishing help giving aid assistant useful salutary...

Insalutary

Not salutary or wholesome unfavorable to health...

Salutiferous

Bringing health healthy salutary beneficial as salutiferous air...

Cross cases, it is a salutary practice, when two criminal cases relate to the same incident, they are tried and disposed of by the same court by pronouncing judgments on the same day. Such two different versions of the same incident resulting in two criminal cases are compendiously called 'case and counter case' by some High Court and 'cross cases' by some other High Courts, Sudhir v. State of Madhya Pradesh, (2001) 2 SCC 688: AIR 2001 SC 826 (827). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 408]...

Frauds, Statute of

Frauds, Statute of, 29 Car. 2, c. 3 (A.D. 1676). This famous statute is said to have been famed by Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Keeper Guilford, and Sir Leoline Jenkins, an eminent civilian. Lord Nottingham used to say of it, that 'every line was worth a subsidy,' and it has been said that at all events the explanation of every line has cost a subsidy, no statute having been the subject of so much litigation. The statute, though it does not apply or have any Act corresponding to it in Scotland, was practically copied by the Irish Parliament in 7 Wm. 3, c. 12, applies generally to the British colonies, and, remarks Mr. Chancellor Kent (2 Com. 494, n. (d), 'carries its influence through the whole body of American juris-prudence, and is in many respects the most comprehensive, salutary, and important legislative regulation on record affecting the security of private rights.'The main object of the statute was to take away the facilities for fraud and the temptation to perjury which arose in verb...

Made his appearance

Made his appearance, the words 'made his appearance' cannot be truncated from the particular context in which that expression is used. It is a salutary principle in the sphere of interpretation of statutory clauses that words in a provision must not be understood merely by their ordinary meanings dehors the context in which such words are used. The words 'made his appearance' in s. 167(5) are used along with the preceding words which by themselves form into a composite collocation as thus: 'From the date on which the accused was arrested or made his appearance'. The purpose of the sub-s. (5) is to impose a time schedule for completion of investiga-tion and such time schedule is to commence either 'from the date of arrest of the accused or the date when he made his appearance in Court', State of West Bengal v. Pranab Ranjan Roy, (1988) 3 SCC 209: AIR 1998 SC 1887 (1890). [Criminal Procedure Code, (20 of 1974), s. 167(5)]...

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