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The United States Vs. Mitchell

Court : US Supreme Court

..... , by intimidation or violence, the repeal of a law, or to oppose and prevent by force and terror, the execution of a law, is an act of levying war. doug. 570. again; an insurrection with an avowed design to suppress public offices, is an act of levying war: and, although a bare conspiracy to levy war, may not ..... . the first question to be considered is, what was the general object of the insurrection? if its object was to suppress the excise offices, and to prevent the execution of an act of congress, by force and intimidation, the offence, in legal estimation, is high treason; it is an usurpation of the authority of government; it is ..... , 349 of domestic insurrection, (which the first branch of the division contemplates) strike at the root of its existence; and, in free countries above all, must be prevented, or corrected, by the most vigilant and efficient sanctions of the law. what constitutes a levying of war, however, must be the same, in technical interpretation, whether committed .....

Medley, Petitioner

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the human race. the brief of counsel for the prisoner furnishes us with the statutory history of solitary confinement in the english law. act 25 geo. ii. c. 37, entitled "an act for better preventing the horrid crime of murder," is preceded by the following preamble: "whereas, the horrid crime of murder has of late been more ..... the jail, the single authorized access of counsel was subject to jail regulations. it is not to be assumed that either regulations would be unreasonable, or operate to prevent access at any proper time. surely, when all who ought to see the condemned have a right of access, subject to the regulations of the prison, it ..... frequently perpetrated than formerly, . . . and whereas it is thereby become necessary that some further terror and peculiar mark of infamy be added to the punishment .....

Emperor Vs. Mulshankar Harinand Bhat

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : (1910)12BOMLR750

..... essential element of the offence constituted by each of the sections. the intention required by section 421 of the code is that the act must be done to prevent, or with knowledge that it is likely to prevent, the distribution of property according to law among the creditors of the offender or the creditors of any other person, whereas the ..... adjudication, the property of the insolvent wherever situate shall vest in the official assignee and shall become divisible among his creditors, and thereafter, except as directed by this act, no creditor to whom the insolvent is indebted in respect of any debt provable in insolvency shall, during the pendency of the insolvency proceedings, have any remedy against ..... could be prosecuted twice over for the same offence; once before a magistrate under the indian penal code and again under section 104 of the insolvency act. this imaginary terror makes as little impression on me as i conceive it did on the mind of the legislature which enacted the insolvency .....

The King (at the Prosecution of Arthur Zadig) Vs. Halliday

Court : House of Lords

..... which it paid to law discovered the odium of its procedure to the world. but the so-called principle - the principle of prevention, the comprehensive principle - avoids the odium of that brutality of the terror. the analogy is with a practice, more silent, more sinister - with the lettres de cachet of louis quatorze. no trial ..... the forces of his allies" are introduced in the latter after the words "his majesty's forces." now the only way contemplated in the earlier act of preventing persons from doing something prohibited by the regulations, or omitting to do something enjoined by them, is by trial and punishment before courts-martial. the ..... authorize the trial in defined ways and the punishment of persons committing offences against the regulations, and in particular against any of the provisions of regulations designed to prevent certain acts or secure certain results described under five heads ( a ) to ( e ). this is a section (1.) empowering the issue of regulations for a defined .....

Debendra NaraIn Roy Vs. Jogendra NaraIn Deb and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1936Cal593,167Ind.Cas.615

..... are at best equivocal for they leave us where we were, not enabling us to ascertain what exactly was the kind of mischief that was sought to be prevented or remedied by the act.85. the next thing to look into is the preamble. the decisions are quite clear that the preamble may always be referred to for the purpose of ..... disputes and preservation of the raj and with that object in view proceeds to declare and supplement that customary law of succession. does it intend by the act to prevent all kinds of disputes possible and to preserve the raj from all attacks? the answer cannot be in the affirmative; for it undertakes a legislation which covers only one ..... law of succession in the group of estates known as the bijni raj in assam with a view to the prevention of disputes and the preservation of the raj:8. section 1 gives the short title of the act as 'the bijni succession act, 1931' section 2 contains definitions of the following words and expressions: 'the bijni raj' or 'the raj'; 'family'; .....

Monroe Vs. Pape

Court : US Supreme Court

..... will say we can but try. the united states courts are further above mere local influence than the county courts; their judges can act with more independence, cannot be put under terror, as local judges can; their sympathies are not so nearly identified with those of the vicinage; the jurors are taken from the ..... decision in collins v. hardyman, 341 u. s. 651 , can properly be viewed as determining the scope of the provision of 1985 which refers to conspiring "for the purpose of preventing . . . the constituted authorities of any state . . . from giving . . . the equal protection of the laws. . . ." not only did the court specifically disclaim ..... reach only the ku klux klan or other substantially organized group activity, as distinguished from what its words seem to include, any conspiracy of two persons with "the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities of any state . . . from giving or securing to all persons within such state . . . the equal protection of the laws. . .....

Communist Party Vs. Sacb

Court : US Supreme Court

..... special interest groups seeking favored treatment while masquerading as proponents of the public weal. this is the evil which the lobbying act was designed to help prevent." "toward that end, congress has not sought to prohibit these pressures. it has merely provided for a modicum of information ..... practice, is a worldwide revolutionary movement whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups (governmental and otherwise), espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a communist totalitarian dictatorship in the countries throughout the world through the medium of a worldwide communist ..... practice, is a worldwide revolutionary movement whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups (governmental and otherwise), espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a communist totalitarian dictatorship in the countries throughout the world through the medium of a worldwide .....

Babroo Vs. State

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : 1968WLN6

..... . of maize. a challan was presented against the accused babroo for contravening the provisions of the rajasthan foodgrains dealers, licensing order 1964, and the rajasthan foodgrains (prevention of hoarding) order, 1964, by the police station arnod, district chittorgarh. after the trial of the case, the sub--divisional magistrate found the accused guilty under ..... added, could not have ordered the confiscation of the entire stock of foodgrains consisting of 42 quintals of wheat.4 clause 7 of the rajasthan foodgrains (prevention of hoarding) order, 1964, is in the terms following:if any person contravenes any of the provisions of this order, then without prejudice to any other ..... , dated august 29, 1967 the petitioner was convicted by subdivisional magistrate, partabgarh, for an offence under section 7 read with section 3 of the essential commodities act, 1955, and was sentenced to pay a fine of rs. 2000/- in default of payment of fine to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a month. learned sub .....

Nagar Mahapalika Vs. P. Gurnai and anr.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 1978CriLJ53

..... . 1,000/- each in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a further period of three months, under section 7 read with 16(1) of the prevention of food adulteration act.15. the respondents are on bail: they shall surrender to their bail bonds and serve out the unexpirefl portion of the sentence.16. chief judicial magistrate ..... the state (delhi administration) (1977 cri lj 12 (sc) (supra)'interdict, otherwise the applicability of the provisions of probation of offenders1 act1 to offenders under the prevention of food adulteration act:- (at pp. 18, 19 of cri lj) ?it may be pointed out that the law commission also in its forty seventh report recommended the exclusion of ..... the court to take a lenient view of the matter and extend them the benefit of the probation of offenders act. the question of applying the provision of that act to an offence under the prevention of food adulteration act came up before the supreme court in isher dass v. state of punjab : 1972crilj874 where the offender was .....

Rajendra Prasad Vs. State of Uttar Pradesh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1979SC916; 1979CriLJ792; (1979)3SCC646; [1979]3SCR78

..... it may be stated that the state of west bengal has taken a step forward in that direction. the prevention of adulteration of food, drugs and cosmetics act, 1973 (west bengal act 42 of 1973 makes the offence of sale of spurious drugs, adulteration of articles of food meant for human consumption ..... from such an investigation, constitutional reinforcement may be sought. since the constitution is paramount and paramountcy is paramountcy, its expansive humanism must overpower traditional 'terrorism' in the practice of sentencing. when this stage is reached and formulation of guidelines made, we will consider the criminological foundations of theories of ..... , at once constitutional and functional. the law reports reveal the impressionistic and unpredictable notes struck by some decisions and the occasional vocabulary of horror and terror, of extenuation and misericordia, used in the sentencing tailpiece of judgments. therefore, this jurisprudential exploration, within the framework of s. 302 i.p. .....