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Treason
by any overt act, is made treason. Treason must be prosecuted within three years from its commission, if committed within the realm, except in the case of a designed assassination of the sovereign, 7 & 8 Wm.
Terrorism
State of Maharashtra, (1984) 4 SCC 494. (ii) Terrorism means the act of terrorising; unlawful acts of violence committed in an organised attempt to overthrow a government or like purposes, State of Punjab v. Sukhpal Singh, AIR
Such court
produced or tendered in evidence a document in respect of which the offence is alleged to have been committed. Clause (c), means that it is that Court before which there is a proceeding and a party to
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Stellionate
Stellionate [stellionats], a kind of crime which is committed by a deceitful selling of a thing; as if a man should sell as his own estate that
Statutory tenant
Statutory tenant, a person remaining in occupation of premises let to him after the determination of or expiry of the period of the tenancy is commonly, though in law not accurately, called a statutory tenant. Statutory...
Sacrilege
24, Larceny Act, 1916, breaking and entering any church, chapel, meeting-house, or other place of divine worship and committing any felony therein, or being therein and committing any felony therein, and breaking out of the same, is
Reward
1826, s. 28, the Courts may order the sheriff of the county, in which certain offences have been committed, to pay the person active in or towards the apprehension of persons charged with felonies a reasonable sum
Tenant
Tenant, embraces in itself, the heirs of the deceased called 'statutory tenants' as even after the determination of the tenancy continued to have an estate on the tenanted premises, which are heritable, Kasturi Lal v. Brimlal,...
Privilegia, or Laws ex post facto
Privilegia, or Laws ex post facto, laws which are enacted after an act is committed declaring it for the first time to have been a crime, and inflicting a punishment upon the person
Poor Prisoners, Defence of
assigned to him for that purpose, if a certificate, called the 'defence certificate,' is granted by the justices committing him for trial or of the judge or chairman of the court before which he is to be
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