Assault - Law Dictionary Search Results
Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)
indecency by a child or young person under sixteen shall be no defence to a charge of indecent assault (s. 1). Reasonable cause to believe that a girl was over sixteen shall notbe a defence to a
Cruelty
a Court of Summary Jurisdiction may order that a wife whose husband has been convicted of an aggravated assault upon her, or has been guilty of persistent cruelty to her, can leave and live apart from him,
Damages
libel, or the mode in which the subject-matter of the action arose, e.g., time and place of an assault or trespass, or the peculiar nature of the wrong or the distress of mind produced in the plaintiff,
Keep your definitions linked to case research
Excess
Excess, when a defendant pleaded to an action of assault that the plaintiff trespassed on his land and would not depart when ordered, whereupon he molliter manus imposuit,
Flagrant necessity
Flagrant necessity, a case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act, as an assault to remove a man from impending danger.
Infamous crime
& 25 Vict. c. 96), which defines an infamous crime within the enactment as sodomy, or bestiality, or assault with intent or attempt to commit, or induce-ment to commit or permit, such crime. This section is repealed
Judicial separation
Married Women (Maintenance) Acts, 1895 to 1925, to the wife, on the conviction of the husband of aggravated assault, or on the ground of persistent cruelty, forcing her to live apart from him, or on the ground
Justifiable homicide
and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it is justifiable for the
Payment of Money into Court
(Odgers on Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum
Life or personal liberty
21 of the Constitution includes right to live with human dignity which would include guarantee against torture and assault by the State, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (729). (Constitution of India, Article,
- ‹ Prev
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- Next ›
- Last »
Try the research workspace - 7 days free