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General Court
General Court : a legislative assembly ;specif : the state legislature in Massachusetts and New Hampshire … General Court : a legislative assembly ;specif : the state legislature in Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Chancellor
A judicial court of chancery which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction … A judicial court of chancery which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction
Placitum
assembly in the Middle Ages over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state … A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs
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Ancwyn
Ancwyn, a stated allowance of provision allotted to the officers of the Court in their lodgings; the term appears to be … Ancwyn, a stated allowance of provision allotted to the officers of the Court in their lodgings; the term appears to be put in opposition to cwynos (c'na), supper, as being a
jurisdiction
authority to interpret, apply, and declare the law (as by rendering a decision) [to be removed to the State having of the crime "U.S. Constitution art. IV"] [a court of competent ] see also situs International Shoe … Ancillary jurisdiction allows a single court to decide an entire case instead of dividing the claims among several courts and proceedings, and allows a federal court to decide a claim that would otherwise be properly brought to
Court
within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms Act (30 of 1950), s. 19] Court, means … SCR 850. [Criminal Procedure Code (5 of 1898), s. 195(2)] Tribunals functioning under Industrial Disputes Act are not courts in the strict sense of the term they have to discharge quasi-judicial functions and as such are subject
Judgment
Court is concerned is a 'judgment' within the meaning of s. 494 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, State of Bihar v. Ram Naresh Pandey, AIR 1957 SC 389: (1957) SCR 279. (S. 494 of Cr PC, … Judgment [fr. judgment, Fr.], judicial determination; decision of a Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use
Trial
in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the … Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1510. At a trial by jury now, as formerly in the Common Law Courts, the cause is called on, or the prisoner arraigned, before the jury is sworn. The parties may then
Law
day, the force of law in the whole of any part of the territory now comprised in the state of sikkim. Order, 2(1)(c) of Adaptation of Sikkim Laws (No. 1) order, 1975, Kunga Nima Lepcha v. State … of Sikkim, AIR 2006 Sikkim 1. The law of foreign countries is a question of fact in English Courts. See FOREIGN LAW. It (English) is also sometimes used as opposed to equity, meaning the principles followed in
Cause of action
of obtaining relief claimed in the suit. For the aforementioned purpose, the material facts are required to be stated but not the evidence except in certain cases where the pleading relied on any misrepresentation, fraud, breach of … Success, (2004) 9 SCC 512 (562). [Civil Procedure Code, 1908, O. 7, R. 11(9)] --It is only that court in whose jurisdiction the 'cause of action' did arise will have Jurisdiction to entertain an application either under
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