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Judicial Act

Act, the duties of the Election Officer certainly fit in with the aforesaid definition. He has legal authority to decide on the objections raised by the candidate. The question decided by him affects the rights of the parties,

Marriage

but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious

Interlocutory order

broad or artistic sense. It merely denotes orders of a purely interim or temporary nature which do not decide or touch the important rights or the liabilities of the parties. Any order which substantially affects the right

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Interim orders/interlocutory orders

pendency of a case, fall under one or the other of the following categories: (i) Orders which finally decide a question or issue in controversy in the main case. (ii) Orders which finally decide an issue which

Court

in a district and including the 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 … the Special Court Act, it is intended to encompass all curial or judicial bodies which have the jurisdiction to decide matters or claims, inter alia, arising out of transactions in securities entered into between the stated in which

Character and antecedents

circumstances of a case before deciding to proceed summarily may not be taken into consideration when they come to decide whether to commit for sentence, but where they have failed to make a proper inquiry before deciding to

Bias

of India, Arts. 226, 14] Bias may be defined as a pre-conceived opinion or a pre-disposition or pre-determination to decide a case or an issue in a particular manner, so much so that such pre-disposition does not leave … State of West Bengal v. Shivananda Pathak, (1998) 5 SCC 513: AIR 1998 SC 2050 (2056). A predisposition to decide for or against one party without proper regard to the true merits of the dispute is bias. Personal

jurisdiction

court under its diversity jurisdiction compare pendent jurisdiction in this entry NOTE: 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 … 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 a state court. appellate jurisdiction : the jurisdiction granted

Question of fact

be so stated under (English) R.S.C. Ord. XXXIV, r. 9. In general when a jury is sworn it decides all the issues of fact; but if there arise in the course of the trial a question of

Without prejudice

Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1596. The expression 'without prejudice' means; (1) that the matter had not been decided on merits, and (2) that fresh proceedings according to law were not barred, Superintendent (Tech. I) Central Excise

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