Extraordinary circumstances - Indian Laws - General

Extraordinary circumstances As per Black s Law Dictionary (Seventh Edition 1999; Bryan A. Garner; West Group; Page 236) and it is stated as follows: Extraordinary circumstances . A highly unusual set of facts that are not commonly associated with a particular thing or event. P. Ramanatha Aiyar s Advanced Law Lexicon (Third Edition; 2005; Volume 2 Page 1744), the words extraordinary circumstances have been referred to as follows: Extraordinary circumstances . Factors of time, place etc., which are not usually associated with a particular thing or event; out of the ordinary factors. See also extenuating circumstances; Mitigating circumstances. The extraordinary circumstances justifying federal equitable intervention in pending state criminal prosecution must be extraordinary in the sense of creating an extraordinary pressing need for immediate federal equitable relief, not merely in the sense of presenting a highly unusual factual situation. Kugler v. Halfanit, NJ 421 US 117, 95 S. Ct. 1524, 1531, 44 L.Ed. 2d 15. In the Dictionary of P. Ramanatha Aiyar s Advanced Law Lexicon (Third Edition; 2005; Volume 2 Page 1744). The same is as follows : Extraordinarily. It was dangerous and extraordinarily inconvenient to passengers of carriages, Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, (c 20), S.53, for a railway company to lay down rails and run trains along a portion of a highway; before doing so, they had to comply with the section and cause a sufficient road to be made instead of the road, to be interfered with (A.G. v. Widnes Railway, 30 LT 449). Extraordinary . Beyond or out of the common order or rule; not usual, regular or o a customary kind; not ordinary; above ordinary (as) Extraordinary jurisdiction of High Court. The word does not mean what has never been previously heard of, or within former experience, but only what is beyond the ordinary, usual or common. (The Titania 19 Feb. 101, 105). Outside the usual or ordinary. [S. 57(e), T.P. Act (4 of 1882)]. Describing additional items, expenditure, etc. acquired or incurred in addition to normal business. (Banking) EXTRAORDINAY, REMARKABLE , are epithets both opposed to the ordinary, but things may be extraordinary which are not remarkable, and the contrary. The extraordinary is that which is out of the ordinary course, but it does not always excite remark, and is not therefore remarkable, as when we speak of an extraordinary loan, an extraordinary measure of government; on the other hand, when the extraordinary conveys the idea of what deserves notice, it express much more than remarkable (as) a remarkable event. RECKITT BENCKISER (INDIA) LIMITED AND S.K. AGENCIES VERSUS STATE OF UTTARAKHAND AND ANOTHER - 2015 (7) TMI 1107 - UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT