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Aggression, is not to be confused with war only. It being an all comprehensive word with a very wide meaning and complex dimensions, its meaning cannot be explained by a strait-jacket formula but will depend on the fact situation of every case and its impact, Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India, (2005) 5 SCC 665. [Constitution of India, Article 335]Aggression, as adopted by UNGA No. 3314 is used for limited purpose, where the Security Council or the UNO can interfere and adopt measures in the event of an aggression by one nation and against another and the acts enumerated therein which may amount to aggression, Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India, (2005) 5 SCC 665; Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 US 581: 32 L ED 1068; Kawasaki v. Bantham SS. Co., (1938) 3 All ER 80 (KBD); Indian Journal of International Law, Vol. 11 (1971), p. 724, Lord Denning. The Due Process of Law, 'Introduction' to Part Five -- Entrances and Exists p. 155....
Enemy
Enemy, means:(i) any person or country committing external aggression against India,(ii) any person belonging to a country committing such aggression,(iii) such other country as may be declared by the Central government to be assisting the country committing such aggression,(iv) any person belonging to such other country.[Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962, s. 2(3),One who opposes or inflicts injury on another;an antagonist, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 548.Includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to this Act to take action. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (j)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (x)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any pe...
Emergency
Emergency, means a situation which is not normal, a situation which calls for urgent remedial action. Break-down of the Constitutional machinery in a State does gives rise to a situation of emergency, S.R. Bommai v. Union of India, AIR 1994 SC 1918 (2052): 1994(5) SCC 1.Emergency means situation which is not normal, situation which calls for urgent remedial action, Rameshwar Prasad v. Union of India, (2006) 2 SCC 1.Has to be laid before each House of Parliament, Constitution of India, Art. 352(4).'Proclamation of emergency arising out of war, external aggression or armed rebellion may be varied or revoked by subsequent proclamation, Constitution of India, Art. 352(2).In India, the President can issue proclamations to meet three types of emergencies viz., (i) emergency arising out of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, (ii) failure of Constitutional machinery in a State, and (iii) threat to financial stability or credit of India or any part of it.Is a situation in which the hea...
Right of private defence
Right of private defence, the right of private defence of person and property is recognised in all free, civilised, democratic societies within certain reasonable limits. Those limits are dictated by two considerations: (1) that the same right is claimed by all other members of the society and (2) that it is the State which generally undertakes the responsibility for the maintenance of law and order. The citizens, as a general rule, are neither expected to run away of safety when faced with grave and imminent danger to their person or property as a result of unlawful aggression, nor are they expected, by use of force, to right the wrongs done to them or to punish the wrongdoer for commission of offences. The right of private defence serves a social purpose and as observed by the Supreme Court more than once there is nothing more degrading to the human spirit than to run away in face of peril. But this right is basically preventive and not punitive, Gottipulla Venkata Siva Subbrayanam v...
defensive
defensive 1 : serving to defend or as part of a defense [a pleading] 2 : devoted to resisting or preventing aggressive actions [a recapitalization…to escape a takeover attempt "Barbara Franklin"] de·fen·sive·ly adv ...
war crime
war crime : an act committed usually during an international war for which individual criminal liability will be imposed by a domestic or international tribunal ;specif : a violation of the laws or customs of war as embodied or recognized by international treaty, court decisions, or established practice usually used in pl. NOTE: Following World War II, the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg first codified war crimes including crimes against humanity. Also encompassed in the legal concept of war crimes is the crime of planning or waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties. ...
chutzpa
aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery gall as he had the chutzpah to question my decision...
Forthputing
Bold forward aggressive...
Hotshot
a successful self confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated...
Incursive
Making an incursion invasive aggressive hostile...
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