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summary distribution : an abridged form of administration allowing distribution of an estate after the filing of an inventory showing assets sufficient only to pay superior claims (as to family members claiming statutory shares) compare collection by affidavit ...
collection by affidavit
collection by affidavit :a procedure available for small estates in some states as an alternative to court administration in which a person named in a will may file an affidavit asserting his or her entitlement to payment after a waiting period compare summary distribution ...
Summary
Summary, an abridgment, brief compendium; summary application, one made to a court or judge without the formality of a full proceeding. See PLENARY.The word 'summary' implies a short and quick procedure instead of or, as an alternative to, the more elaborate procedure ordinarily adopted or prescribed for deciding a case. The proceedings before a court, tribunal or an authority are called summary proceedings if it is not required to follow the regular formal procedure but is authorised to follow a short and quick procedure for expeditious disposal, Mohan Lal v. Kartar Singh, 1995 Supp (4) SCC 684 (693) (Punjab Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1955, s. 43...
Distribution
Distribution, 'distribution' includes distribution by way of samples whether free or otherwise. [Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, (60 of 1986), s. 2(b)]Distribution includes distribution by way of samples, whether free or otherwise. [Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertise-ment and Regulation of Trade and Commence, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 (34 of 2003), s. 3(c)]The Act of dealing out to others; dispensation.The dictionary meaning of the expression 'distribu-tion' is 'to give each a share, to give to several persons'. The expression 'distribution' connotes something actual and not notional. It can be physical; it can also be constructive. One may distribute amounts between different shareholders either by crediting the amount due to each one of them in their respective accounts or by actually paying to each one of them the amount due to him. The only difference between the expression 'paid' and the expression, 'distri...
summary process
summary process : a procedure allowed to enforce a claim or right in a summary manner ;specif : a procedure to repossess real property esp. from a tenant upon nonpayment or other default : a summary eviction ...
Commutative justice and distributive justice
Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires at least two persons while distributive justice requires at least three. Relative equality in treating different persons while grating relief according to need, or reward and punishment according to merit and guilt is the essence of distributive justice. While in commutative justice the two persons confront each other as co-equals, there or more persons are necessary in distributive justice in which one, who imposes burdens upon or grants advantages to the others, is superior to them. 'Therefore, it presupposes an act of distributive justice which has granted to those concerned, equality to rights, equal capacity to act, equal status.' [The Legal Philosophies of Lask, Radbruch and Dabin, p. 74] According to Radbruch, 'distributive justice is the prototype of justice. In it we have found the idea of justice, toward which the concept of law must be...
summary
summary : done immediately, concisely, and without usual formal procedures ;esp : used in or done by summary proceeding compare plenary sum·mar·i·ly [sə-mer-ə-lē] adv ...
Summary action or proceeding
Summary action or proceeding, means the proceed-ing before a court, tribunal or an authority are called summary proceeding if it is not required to follow the regular formal procedure but is autho-rised to follow a short and quick procedure for expeditious disposal, Mohan Lal v. Kartar Singh, (1996) Punj LR 383....
Summary jurisdiction
Summary jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a court to give a judgment or make an order itself forthwith, e.g., to commit to prison for contempt, to punish malpractice in a solicitor, or in the case of justices of the peace, a jurisdiction to convict an offender themselves instead of committing him for trial by a jury. The mode of exercising this latter jurisdiction, which is given in particular instances by very numerous particular statutes, is generally regulated by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 1848 and 1879. Several amendments have been made in the law by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, and Criminal Justice Act, 1925; see also HUSBAND AND WIFE. see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices' and Stone's Justices Manual; and also SESSIONS OF THE PEACE....
Summary jurisdiction, Court of
Summary jurisdiction, Court of, 'means' in an Act of Parliament 'any justice or justices of the peace, or other magistrate by whatever name called, to whom jurisdiction is given by, or who is authorized to act under, the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Acts' (Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 13, sub-s. 11); but does not include justices at a licensing meeting: see Boulter v. Kent Justices, 1897, AC 556, reversing and overruling decisions of the Court of Appeal....
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