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said to have been chosen by the patricians to visit Greece in order to collect materials for a code; upon their return, after an absence of three years, ten commissioners, including the three, were appointed with the
Public servant
Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)] Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21
Decree
'decree' and is capable of execution, Ameer-un-Nissa Begum v. Mahboob Begum, AIR 1955 SC 352 (359). [Civil Procedure Code, 1908, s. 2(2)] A decree is defined in s. 2(2) of the Code to mean the formal expression
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Investigation
Investigation, s. 4(1) of the Code of Criminal Proce-dure, 1898 defines 'investigation' as to include all the proceedings under that Code for the collection
Valuable security
Univer-sity could not be described as 'valuable security' within the meaning of s. 30 of the Indian Penal Code, Shaikh Noor Mohd. Shaikh Fazal v. State of Maharashtra, (1980) 4 SCC 551: AIR 1981 SC 297 (298).
Pandect', or Digesta
by a constitution addressed to Tribonian, empowered him to name a commission for the purpose of forming a code out of the writings of those jurists who had enjoyed the Jus respondendi, or, as it is expressed
Obscene
arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913). Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English Statute. The Common law offence of obscenity was established in England three
Equal pay for equal work
equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Para 2 of s. 111 of the Czechoslovak Code, s. 67 of the Bulgarian Code, s. 40 of
good
usually used in pl. : as a pl : all things under section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money that
prescription
prescription in this entry [predial servitudes on property of the state may not be acquired by "Louisiana Civil Code"] ac·quis·i·tive prescription [ə-kwi-zə-tiv-] : acquisition of ownership or other real rights in movables or immovables by continuous, uninterrupted,
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