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stand stood stand·ing vi 1 : to be in a particular state or situation [ accused] 2 : to remain valid or effective [let the ruling ] vt : to submit to [ trial] stand in judgment : to submit to the judgment of the court stand in the shoes of : to assume the rights or obligations of stand mute : to be effectively silent: as a : to exercise the privilege against self-incrimination (as in a trial) b : to raise no objections [the prosecution agreed to stand mute at the sentencing] stand on : to depend on esp. as the basis of an argument or claim [a party who stands on the writing as a complete and exclusive embodiment of the contract "J. J. White and R. S. Summers"] n : the place taken by a witness for testifying in court [take the ] compare bar, bench, dock, sidebar ...
Bus-Stand
Bus-Stand, a bus stand means a place where bus services commence or terminate. It is the place where the buses stand for commencing its transport service or where they stand after terminating their service, that is popularly known as a bus-stand, Municipal Board v. State Transport, Authority, AIR 1965 SC 458 (464): 1963 Supp (2) SCR 373. (Motor Vehicles Act, 1939)...
Locus standi
Locus standi, is a place for standing, rights to be heard, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637.Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid bill or special procedure order to be heard upon his petition. A petitioner has locus standi which his interest is directly hit by the bill, if passed into law, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abrahan and S.C. hawtrey, 1956, p. 113.Locus standi, the right of a party to appear and be heard on the question before any tribunal, frequently disputed in private bill legislation. Consult the works of Smethurst, or of Clifford and Stephens, on this subject....
third-party standing
third-party standing : standing sometimes granted to a party claiming to protect the rights or interests of a third party compare batson challenge NOTE: Third-party standing is granted esp. when a statute is challenged as unconstitutionally overbroad or when a party (such as a criminal defendant) challenges the exclusion of a juror who is being denied equal protection by being excluded esp. because of race or gender. ...
Duly notified stands
Duly notified stands, The expression 'duly notified stands' is not defined in the Act, but it is reasonable to presume that a duly notified stand must be one which is notified by the Transport Authority and by none other, T.B. Ibrahim v. Regional Transport Authority Tanjore, AIR 1953 SC 79: (1953) SCR 290....
Stable-stand
Stable-stand, one of the four evidences or presumptions whereby a man is convicted to intend the stealing of the royal deer in the forest; and this is when a man is found at his standing in the forest, ready to shoot with a cross-bow bent at any deer, or with a long bow, or else standing close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip, Manwood, cap. 2, cap. 18....
To stand or not to stand as a candidate
To stand or not to stand as a candidate, a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate as any election and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate. The first part of the definition requires that in order to be a candidate a person should have been duly nominated as a candidate. But it may sometimes happen that though a person claims to have been duly nominated, the validity of his nomination is in dispute: such a person would also be a candidate within the meaning of the definition. The basic postulate of the first part of the definition is that a person should be duly nominated and it is only then that he becomes a candidate at an election. The second part of the definition does not extend the meaning of the word 'candidate' but merely says from what point of time a person, who has been duly nominated as a candidate, shall be deeme...
standing
standing : continuing in existence, use, or effect indefinitely [a order] n 1 : the status of being qualified to assert or enforce legal rights or duties in a judicial forum because one has a sufficient and protectable interest in the outcome of a justiciable controversy and usually has suffered or is threatened with actual injury [only one who already has can argue the public interest in support of his claim "Hawaii's Thousand Friends v. Anderson, 768 P.2d 1293 (1989)"] 2 : a principle requiring that a party have standing in order to justify the exercise of the court's remedial powers ...
witness stand
witness stand : stand ...
Lands on which they stand
Lands on which they stand, the expression 'lands on which they stand' may include the land which is necessary for the efficient user, of the building for the purpose for which it is intended to be used, Kanpur Sugar Works Ltd. v. State of Bihar, AIR 1970 SC 1539 (1541): (1970) 1 SCC 628: (1970) 3 SCR 903....
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