Legal glossary
“competent court”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Indian Naval Armament Act, 1923 · s. 2
(a) "competent Court" means the High Court or such other Court having unlimited original civil jurisdiction as the Central Government may declare to be a competent Court for the purposes of this Act;
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