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First information report

very important document. And as its nickname suggests it is the earliest and the first information of a cognizable offence recorded by an officer in charge of a police station, T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala, AIR

Military offences

Military offences, those offences which are cognizable by the Courts military-as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, etc, as well as any civil crime with special

Peculiars, Court of

and subject to the metropolitan only. All ecclesiastical causes arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions are, originally, cognizable by this Court, from which an appeal lies to the Court of Arches, 3 Bl. Com. 65. See

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Piracy

3, c. 2), it is held to be only felony in a subject. Formerly this offence was only cognizable by the Admiralty Courts, which proceed by the rules of the civil law, but it being inconsistent with

Reason to suspect

to suspect the commission of an offence' would mean the sagacity of rationally inferring the commission of a cognizable offence based on the specific articulate facts mentioned in the First Information Report as well in the Annexures,

Monitory letters

communications of warning and admonition sent from an ecclesiastical judge, upon information of scandal and abuses within the cognizance of his Court.

Foreign plea

Foreign plea, a plea objecting to the jurisdiction of a judge, on the ground that he had not cognizance of the subject-matter of the suit.

Foujdar, Fojedar, Phousdar, Fogedar

Fojedar, Phousdar, Fogedar, under the Mogul Government a magistrate of the police over a large district, who took cognizance of all criminal matters within his jurisdiction, and sometimes was employed as receiver-general of the revenues, Indian

Junta, or Junto

Junta, or Junto [Lat.], a select council for taking cognizance of affairs of great consequence requiring secrecy; a cabal or faction.

Jurisdiction

(18 of 1850), s. 1] The word 'jurisdiction' in s. 125 really signifies the initial jurisdiction to take cognizance of a case. It refers to the stage at which proceedings are instituted in a court and not

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