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List of Vocabulary

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  • An appendix to an act of legislature containing a statement of detail or taking the form of detailed list of relevant matter.
The Constitution of India contains 12 schedules.
  • Property as assurance to secure fulfilment of an obligation and forfeitable in the event of non fulfilment.
C pledged her house as a security for loan.
  • The action of seizing.
Decree for specific movable property may be executed by seizure.
  • To annul, quash.
The subordinate court's order was set aside.
  • An item or amount which is or should be set off against another in settlement of accounts.
Counter Claim can be filed under Order 8 Rule 6 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908.
  • Capable of being separated.
If part of a contract is void and is severable, the rest of the contract must be performed.
  • Whenever it is directed by IEA that the Court shall presume a fact, it shall regard such fact as proved, unless and until it is disproved.
The court shall presume genuineness of every electronic record purporting to be an official gazette.
  • To enter into a marriage contract with due publication
A Hindu marriage may be solemnized in accordance with the customary rites and ceremonies of either party thereto.
  • That imprisonment during which a convict is segregated from other convicts and kept alone.
The limit of solitary confinement is 3 months.
  • A state of mind in which one can understand the nature of man's action and form a judgement of his own.
Only a sound mind person can make a contract.
  • A law applicable to a particular subject
Where any Special law prescribes for any suit, a period of limitation different from the period prescribed, then Section 3 shall apply.
  • State list includes the important subjects on which the state government can pass the law.
State List of the Constitution of India enumerates 66 subjects.
  • In course of trial.
How to deal with matters Sub-Judice, is provided by S.10 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908.
  • The state judiciary consists of a High Court and a hierarchy of subordinate courts, also known as lower courts. The subordinate courts are so-called because of their subordination to the state high court.
Chapter VI of the Constitution of India deals with the provision of subordinate courts.
  • An allowance for maintenance granted under special circumstances.
The State Government may fix scale for subsistence allowance.
  • The process by which one person succeeds another in the occupation or possession of any estate or the like.
A got B's property by intestate succession.
  • An authoritative call to attend a specified place for a specified purpose, a writ by which a person is called to appear before a court or judicial officer.
Summons issued by court shall be in writing.
  • The exercise of supervision.
Every High Court shall have superintendence over all courts and tribunals throughout the territories interrelation to which it exercises jurisdiction
  • The Highest Court of Justice in India.
The Supreme Court has advisory jurisdiction under Art 143 of the Constitution of India.
  • A person who finds himself for the payment of sum of money or for the performance of something else for another who is already bound for the same.
A acted as a surety for B in the Contract of guarantee.
  • the right of a person to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it; the state or condition of being a survivor
The principle of survivorship allows the surviving joint tenant to automatically inherit the deceased tenant's share of the property, ensuring that ownership remains intact within the surviving partners.