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Abnormal law

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crime against nature

crime against nature :a sexual act (as of bestiality) that is regarded by the law as abnormal ;also : the crime of committing such an act

Terrorism

and helplessness in the minds of the people at large or any section thereof and is a totally abnormal phenomenon. What distinguishes 'terrorism' from other forms of violence, therefore, appears to be the deliberate and systematic use … terrorist activity travels beyond the effect of an ordinary crime capable of being punished under the ordinary penal law of the land and its main objective is to overawe the Government to disturb harmony of the society

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mental disease

mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or emotional processes and internal behavioral control and that is not manifest … and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental disease has developed a settled meaning in criminal law while mental illness is often explained or defined by reference to the medical community's understanding of the term.

Cruelty

1860, s. 498A) For the purposes of constituting the offence need not be physical. Even mental torture or abnormal behaviour may amount to cruelty and harassment in a given case, Gananath Pattnaik v. State of Orissa, (2002) … harmful or injurious for him to live with the respondent. It is not necessary, as under the English law, that the cruelty must be of such a character as to cause 'danger' to life., limb or health

Labourers, Statute of

whereby justices of the peace had power to regulate the rate of wages, which had risen to an abnormal height owing to the scarcity of labour arising out of the 'Black Death.' … Labourers, Statute of (English), 31 Edw. 3, c. 7 (repealed as long obsolete by Statute Law Revision Act, 1863), whereby justices of the peace had power to regulate the rate of wages, which had

Maintenance

a married daughter) who has attained majority, where such child is, by reason of any physical or mental abnormality or injury unable to maintain itself, or (d) his father or mother, unable to maintain himself or herself, … and indictable [see Bradlaugh v. Newdegate, (1883) 11 QBD 1], and invalidates contracts involving it. By the Roman Law it was a species of crimen falsi to enterin to any confederacy, or do any act to support

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