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Home Dictionary Name: special pleadersSpecial pleaders
Special pleaders, members of an inn of Court who devote themselves mainly to the drawing of pleadings, and to attending at judge's chambers. If not called to the Bar, as was in former times (when many special pleaders practised as such prior to being called to the Bar) frequently the case, they take out annual certificates on which a duty of 9l. is payable, under s. 44 and Schedule of the (English) Stamp Act, 1891, re-enacting similar provisions of the repealed Stamp Act, 1870. They are exempt while in practice from jury service, by the Juries Act, 1870, and see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), ss. 47 to 49....
Pleader
Pleader [fr. narrator, Lat.], one who draws pleadings. See SPECIAL PLEADER.It means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in Court, and includes an advocate, a vakil and an attorney of a High Court. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), s. 2 (15)]When used with reference to any proceeding in any Court, means a person authorised by or under any law for the time being in force, to practise in such Court, and includes any other appointed with the permission of the Court to act in such proceeding. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (q)]...
Defender, advocate, pleader
Defender, advocate, pleader, a debender exerts himself in favour of one that wants support; and advocate signifies one who is called to speak in favour of another; a pleader from plea or excuse, signifies him who pleads in behalf of one who is accused or a party in a civil suit. A defender attempts to keep off a threatened injury by rebutting the attack of another; an advocate states that which is to the advantage of the person or thing advocated; a pleader throws in pleas and extenuations. 'So fair a pleader any cause may gain'. (Dry den)...
Government pleader
Government pleader, included any officer appointed by the State Government to perform all or any of the functions expressly imposed by this Code on the Government Pleader and also any pleader acting under the directions of the Government Pleader. [Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), s. 2 (7)]...
Fair pleader
Fair pleader. See BEAU-PLEADER....
Beau-pleader
Beau-pleader (to plead fairly), an obsolete writ upon the Statute of Malbridge (52 Hen. 3, c. 11), which enacted that neither in the circuits of the justices, nor in counties, hundreds, or courts-baron, any fines should be taken for fair pleading, i.e., for not pleading fairly or aptly to the purpose; upon this statute, them, this writ was ordained, addressed to the sheriff, bailiff, or him who shall demand such fine, prohibiting him to demand it; an alias, pluries, and attachment followed, Nat. Br. 596. It used to be had as well in respect of vicious as fair pleading by way of amendment-2 Inst. 122....
Faint pleader
Faint pleader, a fradulent, false, or collusive manner of pleading to the deception of a third person, 3 Edw. 1, c. 19....
Special Economic Zone
Special Economic Zone, means a specifically delineated duty-free enclave, as if it were a foreign territory for the purpose of trade operations, duties and tariffs, having been declared and notified in the official Gazette as a Special Economic Zone by the Central Government. [West Bengal Special Economic Zone Act, 2003, s. 2(l)]Means each Special Economic Zone notified under the proviso to sub-section (4) of section 3 and sub-section (1) of section 4 (including Free Trade and Warchousing Zone) and includes an existing Special Economic Zone. [Special Economic Zone Act, 2005 (28 of 2005), s. 2(za)]Means each Special Economic Zone notified under the proviso to sub-s. (4) of s. 3 and sub-s. (1) of s. 4 (including Free Trade and Warehousing Zone) and includes an existing Special Economic Zone. [Special Economic Zone Act, 2005, s. 2(Za)]Means the area declared by the Government of India as the Special Economic Zones. [Gujarat Special Economic Zone Act, 2004, s. 2(n)]Means an area identified...
Special jury
Special jury, a jury consisting of persons who, in addition to the ordinary qualifications, are of a certain station in society as esquires, bankers, merchants, etc. The Jurors Act, 1870, s. 6, provides that every man whose name shall be on the jurors' book for any county in England or Wales, or for the county of the City of London, and who shall be legally entitled to be called an esquire, or shall be a person of higher degree, or shall be a banker or merchant, or who shall occupy a private dwelling-house rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 100l. in a town containing, according to the census then next preceding the preparation of the jury list, 20,000 inhabitants and upwards, or rated or assessed to the poor rate, or to the inhabited house duty, on a value of not less than 50l. elsewhere, or who shall occupy premises other than a farm, rated or assessed as aforesaid on a value of not less than 100l., or a farm rated or assess...
Adequate and special reasons
Adequate and special reasons, in order to exercise the discretion of reducing the sentence the statutory requirement is that the court has to record 'adequate and special reasons' in the judgment and not fanciful reasons which would permit the court to impose a sentence less than the prescribed minimum. The reason has not only to be adequate but special. What is adequate and special would depend upon several factors and no straitjacket formula can be imposed, Bhupinder Sharma v. State of Himachal Pradesh, (2003) 8 SCC 551 (558). (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 376)--the expression 'adequate and special reasons'[ indicates that it is not enough to have special reasons, nor adequate reasons disjunctively. There should be a conjunction of both for enabling the court to invoke the discretion. Reasons which are general or common in many cases cannot be regarded as special reasons, Kamal Kishore v. State of Himachal Pradesh, AIR 2000 SC 1920 (1925). [Penal Code, 1860, s. 376(2), proviso]Means t...
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