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Armed Forces, 'armed forces' means the naval, military and air forces and includes any other armed forces of the Union: [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1984), s. 2 (a)]'Armed Forces' means the Army, Navy and Air Force or any part of any one or more of them and includes any other armed force in the service of, or employed with, the Army, Navy or Air Force during hostilities. [Naval and Aircraft Price Act (59 of 1971), s. 2(c)]...
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces :the highest military court presided over by civilian judges and reviewing decisions of lower military courts on criminal matters NOTE: This court was formerly called the United States Court of Military Appeals. ...
Desertion
Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg. v. Cuming, (1887) 19 QBD 13.Also (2) an abandonment of a wife, a matrimonial offence, for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as to orders for the protection of the property of wives deserted by their husbands; and the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), repealing and re-enacting the (English) Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act, 1886, under which a deserted wife may obtain an order from justices of the peace that the husband pay her such weekly sum, n...
nato official
nato official As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming temporarily to the United States as a member of the armed forces or as a civilian employed by the armed forces on assignment with a foreign government signatory to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the alien's spouse and unmarried minor (or dependent) children. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
special immigrants
special immigrants Certain categories of immigrants who were exempt from numerical limitation before fiscal year 1992 and subject to limitation under the employment-based fourth preference beginning in 1992; persons who lost citizenship by marriage; persons who lost citizenship by serving in foreign armed forces; ministers of religion and other religious workers, their spouses and children; certain employees and former employees of the U.S. Government abroad, their spouses and children; Panama Canal Act immigrants; certain foreign medical school graduates, their spouses and children; certain retired employees of international organizations, their spouses and children; juvenile court dependents; and certain aliens serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, their spouses and children. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
Force and arms
Force and arms [vi et armis, Lat.], words usually inserted in an indictment, though not absolutely necessary, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 24. They were also formally inserted in every declaration for trespass, in order to give the Court of Common Pleas or Exchequer jurisdiction, but were rendered unnecessary by the Common Law Procedure Act, 1852 (15& 16 Vict. c. 76), s. 49.The phrase was used in Common-Law pleading in declaration of trespass and in indictment to denote that the offending act was violently. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 657....
In aid of the civil power
In aid of the civil power, The expression 'in aid of the civil power' in Entry 2A of List I and in Entry 1 of List II implies that deployment of the armed forces of the Union shall be for the purpose of enabling the civil power in the State to deal with the situation affecting maintenance of public order which has necessitated the deployment of the armed forces in the State, Naga People's Movement of Human Rights v. Union of India, AIR 1998 SC 431 (463): (1998) 2 SCC 109. (Constitution of India, Schedule 7, List I, Entry 2A and List 2 Entry I)...
Military aircraft
Military aircraft, means an aircraft of the naval, military, air force or any other armed forces of any country and includes every aircraft commanded for the time being by a person in such force detailed for the purpose. [Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Civil Aviation Act, 1982 (66 of 1982), s. 2(1)(d)]...
Camp followers
Camp followers, Civilian employees of Armed Forces, such as carpenters, tailors, boot-makers, gardeners, sweepers, cooks, messengers etc., who are required to follow or accompany armed personnel 'on active service, in camp, on the march or at any frontier post'. These 'Camp followers' fall within s. 2(1)(i) and are subject to the Army Act and the rules made thereunder, Gopal Upadhyaya v. Union of India, 1986 Supp SCC 501: AIR 1987 SC 413 (414). [Army Act (46 of 1950), s. 2(1)(i)]...
Impressment
Impressment, means (1) The act of forcibly taking for public service. (2) A court's imposition of a constructive trust on equitable grounds. (3) Archaic. The method by which armed forces were formely expanded, when so-called press-gangs seized men off the streets and forced them to join the army or navy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760....
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