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Trinity sittings of the Court of Appeal and of the High Court of Justice in Middlesex commence on the Tuesday after Whitsun week and terminate on the 31st of July. See R.S.C. Ord. LXIII., r. 1, and SITTINGS....
Sittings
Sittings. By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 26, the division of the legal year into terms is abolished, and sittings are substituted for it. See now (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII.The sittings of the Court of Appeal and High Court of Justice in London and Middlesex are four in every year, viz., the Michaelmas sittings, the Hilary sittings, the Easter sittings, and the Trinity sittings. The Michaelmas sittings commence on the day appointed by Order in Council (Long Vacation Order, 1935, 12th October; Long Vacation Order, 1936, 12th October), and terminate on the 21st of December; the Hilary sittings commence on the 11th of January and terminate on the Wednesday before Easter; the Easter sittings commence on the Tuesday after Easter week and terminate on the Friday before Whit-Sunday; and the Trinity sittings commence on the Tuesday after Whitsun-week and terminate on the 31st of July (R.S.C. 1883, Ord. LXIII).It is also provided by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 52 (replacing t...
Trinity masters
Trinity masters, Elder Brethren of Trinity House. Two sit as assessors in Admiralty and Prize Courts to assist the judge in cases in which technical questions of navigation arise....
Trinity house
Trinity house, a society at Deptford Strond, incor-porated by Henry VIII. in 1515, for the promotion of commerce and navigation by licensing and regulating pilots, and ordering and erecting beacons, lighthouses, buoys, etc., and stated in the preamble of 8 Eliz. c. 13 to be 'charged with the conduction of the Queen's Majesty's Navy Royal, and bound to foresee the good increase and maintenance of ships, and of all kinds of men trained and brought up to watercraft most meet for Her Majesty's marine service.' Under the Harbours, Docks and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (q.v.), buoys are to be laid down as may be directed by, and lighthouses, beacons are not to be erected, nor are lights to be exhibited, without permission of Trinity House.The Trinity House, by the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, repealing and re-enacting the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, is the chief lighthouse and pilotage authority for England, and the Scots and Irish Boards are to some extent under its control, Pulling's Shipping...
Sitting
Sitting, a secret sitting of the House may be held on a request from the leader of the House, the Speaker may fix a day or part thereof for such a sitting, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha 10th Edn., 2002, r. 248 (Lok Sabha).Sitting, is the time during which a legislative House site continuously, Webster American Dictionary, p. 1364.Sitting, quorum to constitute a sitting of the House is one-tenth of the total number of members of the House. [Constitution of India, Art. 100(3)]...
Trinity
Trinity, the number of three persons in the Godhead or Deity....
Trinity term
Trinity term, one of the four legal terms, beginning on the 22nd May, and ending on the 12th June. See TERMS, and last title....
Banc (or Banco), sittings in
Banc (or Banco), sittings in [fr. bancus, Lat., a seat or bench of justice. Thus Bancus Regin' or Bank la Reine is the Queen's Bench; Bancus communium Placitorum, or Bench le Common Pleas, is the Court of Common Pleas, or the Common Bench], the sittings of a Superior Court of Common Law as a full court as distinguished from the sittings of the judges at Nisi Prius or on circuit. Such sittings might be held out of term as well as in term (1 & 2 Vict. c.32, s. 2, and (English) C.L.P. Act, 1854, s. 95). The business of the courts in banc was transferred to Divisional Courts of the High Court of Justice [(English) Jud. Act, 1873, ss. 40, 41]. See now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 63. See DIVISIONAL COURT....
While so sitting and acting
While so sitting and acting, the words 'while so sitting and acting' in Article 224-A do not contemplate that the person requested has the powers, privileges and jurisdiction only when he sits in court during hours. The effect of those words is that during the period for which a person has been requested to sit and act as a Judge of the High Court, he has the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of a judge of that Court, Krishan Gopal v. Prakashchandra, AIR 1974 SC 209: (1974) 1 SCC 128: (1974) 2 SCR 206. (Constitution of India, Art. 224A)...
Joint sitting
Joint sitting, is a joint sitting of both Houses of a bicameral legislature for setting a disagreement, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 412.In U.K., there is no provision for joint session of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. In Australia, a joint meeting of both Houses of Parliament is held for the purpose of settling a disagreement between them or where it is necessary that a majority of both Houses sitting together should be obtained before changes can be made to the Constitution or certain types of legislation passed, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 412....
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