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In Hansraj Gupta v. Official Liquidators of the Dehra Dun-Mussoorie Electric Tramway Company Ltd.,…

In its 1932 decision, reported at 60 IA 13, the Privy Council distinguished an ordinary suit from the statutory summary proceeding before it. It explained that a suit…

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In Hansraj Gupta v. Official Liquidators of the Dehra Dun-Mussoorie Electric Tramway Company Ltd., which term did the Privy Council explain as ordinarily meaning a civil proceeding instituted by presentation of a plaint?

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In its 1932 decision, reported at 60 IA 13, the Privy Council distinguished an ordinary suit from the statutory summary proceeding before it.

It explained that a suit ordinarily begins with presentation of a plaint.

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Option A

The Privy Council used that description to explain the ordinary meaning of a suit.

Option B

A judgment was not the procedural term defined by that description.

Option C

Res judicata concerns the effect of prior adjudication and was not the term defined by that description.

Option D

A plaint is the initiating document. The description refers to the proceeding that begins when the plaint is presented.

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