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INTERPRETATION Interpretation — "judicial discretion" — exercise of judgment by a Judge or court based on what is fair under the circumstances and guided by the rules and principles of law — a court's power to act or not act when a litigant is not entitled to demand the act as a matter of right— The word "discretion" connotes necessarily an act of a judicial character, and, as used with reference to discretion exercised judicially, it implies the absence of a hard-and-fast rule — Black's Law Dictionary & Aero Traders (P) Ltd. v. Ravinder Kumar Suri — Referred. (Para 13) PDF