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Jurisdiction

AIR 1981 SC 755: (1981) 2 SCR 320: (1981) 2 SCC 577. Jurisdiction should not be confused with status and subordination. Parliament was motivated to create new adjudicatory for to provide new, cheap and fast-track adjudicatory systems

Husband

husband cover a person who enters into marital relationship and under the colour of such proclaimed or feigned status of husband subjects the woman concerned to cruelty or coerces her in any manner or for any of

Rank

to a position, especially an official one, within a social organization, of high social order or other standing status, S.C. Advocate-on-Record Asn. v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 268. The word 'rank' has both a narrower

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Capacity

which vary in relation to each particular form of capacity. Capacity in this form is an incident of status, Sri Mahalinga Thambiran Swamigal v. His Holiness Sri La Sri Kasivasi Arulnandi Thambiram Swamigal, (1974) 2 SCR 74:

principal alien

principal alien The alien who applies for immigrant status and from whom another alien may derive lawful status under immigration law or regulations (usually spouses and minor

deacuteclasseacute

reduced or fallen in status social position class or rank fallen from a high status or rank to a lower one

heir

eliminated in the 1981 revision of the Civil Code. natural heir : an heir (as a child) whose status as an heir arises from esp. close blood relationship as distinguished from one (as the state) whose status

judgment

stipulation : consent decree at decree declaratory judgment : a judgment declaring a right or establishing the legal status or interpretation of a law or instrument [seeking a declaratory judgment that the regulation is unconstitutional] compare damage,

conditional resident

conditional resident Any alien granted permanent resident status on a conditional basis (e.g., a spouse of a U.S. citizen; an immigrant investor), who is required to

visa expiration date

if you have filed an application in a timely manner for extension of stay or a change of status, and that application is pending and not frivolous, and if you did not engage in unauthorized employment, then

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