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Judicial review in India is a process by which the Supreme Court and the High Courts of India examine, determine and invalidate the Executive or Legislative...

an arbitrary or unreasonable departure from precedent and settled judicial custom." See Websters Third New International Dictionary (unabridged). Thorburn...

an arbitrary or unreasonable departure from precedent and settled judicial custom. Market dominance by companies is regulated by public and private enforcement...

Non-judicial punishment (NJP) is a disciplinary measure that may be applied to individual military personnel, without a need for a court martial or similar...

A legal custom is the established pattern of behavior that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. A claim can be carried out in...

Commentaries, or Anson's Law and Custom of the Constitution. The phrase rates no entry in such works as Stroud's Judicial Dictionary or Wharton's Law Lexicon...

which was introduced during the colonial era, influenced by local medieval judicial systems based on religious and cultural practices. The Constitution of...

override older custom. Also, jus cogens (peremptory norm) is a custom, not a treaty. Judicial decisions and juristic writings are regarded as auxiliary sources...

source of law is important where there is a state religion. Historical or judicial precedent and case law can modify or even create a source of law. Legislation...

seen in court wearing a robe). Typically judges pay for their own custom made judicial robe. Until the tenure of Chief Justice John Marshall, all Supreme...

of Parliament. They were, by custom, appointed to the Privy Council if not already members. They served on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council...

The Nature of the Judicial Process is a legal classic written by Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and New York Court of Appeals Chief...

to which high sheriffs are appointed. High sheriffs are the monarch's judicial representative in an area. The ceremonial counties are defined in the Lieutenancies...

different towns or cities where they will hear cases; Courts that sit within a judicial circuit, i.e., an administrative division of a country's judiciary; or...

government's judicial branch and acts as a chief administrative officer for the federal courts. The chief justice presides over the Judicial Conference...

The United States Custom House, Court House, and Post Office was a federal government building from the 1870s to 1896 in the block bounded by Adams Street...

In the Roman Catholic Church, a judicial vicar or episcopal official (Latin: officialis) is an officer of the diocese who has ordinary power to judge cases...

"Time immemorial" is frequently used to describe the time required for a custom to mature into common law. Medieval historian Richard Barber describes this...

law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue...

fourth term, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections. He defeated his opponent, Nathaniel G. Taylor, in August 1849...