Next Friend

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Definition of Next Friend

An infant or a person of unsound mind who has no committee who desire to bring an action must, as a rule, do so through the intervention of a person called a next friend, generally a relation (Order XVI, rr. 16, 17), Every next friend is responsible for the propriety of the proceedings taken in his name.
A married woman cannot be either a next friend or a guardian ad Utem

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Next Friend Next Friend in the Taxation Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law.
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Next Friend Next Friend in the Employment and Labour Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law.
Next Friend Next Friend in the Injury and Tort Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law.
Next Friend Next Friend in the Environmental Law Portal of the European Encyclopedia of Law.

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Definition of Next Friend is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.

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