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Agent

new law. As to bribery of agents and their secret profits, see CORRUPTION. It means a person duly authorised by a party to present any complaint, appeal or reply on its behalf before the national Commission. [Consumer Protection

Act of State

done in relation to a foreigner by the sovereign power of a country or its agent either previously authorised or subsequently ratified. Such an act cannot be questioned or made the subject of legal proceedings in any … Defence (General) Regulations, 1939 is not an act of State, Hirsch v.'Somervell, 62 TLR 592; Stroud's Dictionary of Law, Vol. 1, p. 38. The term Act of State does not always mean a sovereign act against an

Lawful purpose

positive rule of law, Crafter v. Kelly, (194) SASR 237. Should be read as a purpose that is authorised, as opposed to not forbidden, by law because that meaning best gives effect to the object to the … Lawful purpose, may mean a purpose not forbidden by law or not unlawful under the statute that enacts the term or it can mean a purpose that is

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Toll

Dictionary, 7th Edn. It means the amount which the government, or a local authority or a person duly authorised by the government may collect for passage of carriages and vehicles over a road or bridge, Hansraj v. State … paid to use a public road, highway, or bridge 2. A charge for a long call distance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. [fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll, Wel.; taille, Fr.] has two significations:- (1)

Prescription

Prescription [fr. pr'scribo, Lat.], title produced and authorised by long usage. It is known in the Roman Law as usucapio. Title by prescription arises from a long-continued

Warrant

the case may be. [Repatriation of Prisoners Act, 2003 (49 of 2003), s. 2(d)] A writ directing or authorising some one to do an act, esp. one directing a law enforcer to make an arrest, a search,

Illegality

State of Punjab, AIR 1974 SC 1256 (1261): (1974) 4 SCC 754. Means an act that is not authorised by law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 750.

Search warrant

25 Vict. c. 96), s. 103. See Jones v. German, (1897) 1 QB 374. A judge's written order authorising a law-enforce-ment officer to conduct a search of a specified place and to seize evidence, Black's Law Dictionary,

Save as otherwise provided by the Court

time being in force'. Those words, however, refer to those provisions only where the court has been expressly authorised by the Code or other law to alter or review its judgment. The inherent power of the court is

Official

State of Orissa v. Ganesh Chandra Jew, (2004) 8 SCC 40. (Criminal PC, 1973, s. 197) Official, formal; authorised. In the Civil Law, he is a minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law,

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