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matter

matter 1 : a subject of consideration, disagreement, or litigation: as a : a legal case, dispute, or issue [a within the court's

a binding judgment see also doing business statute, fair play and substantial justice, long-arm statute, minimum contacts compare subject matter jurisdiction in this entry NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has held in a series of decisions that the … cause of action of a case that allows the court to issue a binding judgment [housing court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate fraudulent conveyance actions "National Law Journal"] compare personal jurisdiction in this entry NOTE: Diversity jurisdiction,

Misconduct

Misconduct, is a relative term. It has to be considered with reference to the subject-matter and the context wherein such term occurs. It literally means wrong conduct or improper conduct, R.D. Saxena v.

Damages

matters to be set up by a defendant by way of counter-claim, which must formerly have been the subject of a separate action; and, therefore, a defendant may in effect recover damages. See R.S.C., Ord. XXI., R. … Law Revision and Civil Procedure Act, 1883. See now Judicature Act, 1925, s. 36. The Judicature Acts allow matters to be set up by a defendant by way of counter-claim, which must formerly have been the subject

Court

High Court in exercise of the ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jursidiction to decide the questions forming the subject matter of suit, but does not incude any civil court of a grade inferior to such civil court or … High Court in exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction, having jurisdiction to decide the questions forming the subject-matter of the arbitration if the same had been the subject-matter of a suit, but does not include any

Title, Covenants for

conveying has the right to convey:--That the person to whom the conveyance is made shall 'quietly enjoy' the subject-matter of the conveyance without disturbance by the person conveying, or any person claiming by, through, under, or in

Consideration

contract, as was held in Eastwood v. Kenyon, (1840) 11 A&E 438, after many conflicting decisions on the subject. Other instances of insufficient consideration or absence of consideration maybe found in:' Cooke v. Oxley, (1790) 3 TR … Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 2(d)] Consideration does not mean incidental or collateral examination of any matter by the Income-tax Officer in the process of assessment. There must be something in the assessment order to

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