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Rape

Munna Choubey, (2005) 2 SCC 710 (713). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 375) At common law, unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman not his wife through force and against her will, Black's Law Dictionary,

Record, Courts of

Record are of two classes-Superior and Inferior. Superior Courts of Record include the House of Lords, the Judicial Committee, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and a few others. The Mayor's Court of London, the County

Remand

Remand, means to return from one court to another especially lower court or from a court to an administrative agency, McCarton v. Estate of Watson, 693 2d 192 (1984). Remand, to re-commit, or send back to...

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Sedition

of any of them shall be kept secret from the society at large, or which shall have any committee or select body so chosen or appointed that the members constituting the same shall not be known by

Sessions of the peace

the peace try any person for any treason, murder, or capital felony, or for any felony which, when committed by a person not previously convicted of felony, is punishable by penal servitude for life, or for: (1)

Public meeting

for which the meeting was called together shall be guilty of an offence, and, if the offence is committed at a political meeting held in any parliamentary constituency between the date of the issue of a writ

Solicitation

Solicitation. It is an indictable offence to solicit and incite another to commit a felony, although no felony be in fact committed, R. v. Higgins (1801) 2 East, 5. As to

loiter

or hang around an area for no obvious purpose ;specif : to linger aimlessly for the purpose of committing a crime [a statute forbidding any person from ing on school grounds]

marriage

marriage 1 : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a legal, consensual, and contractual relationship recognized and sanctioned by and dissolvable only by law see...

misdemeanant

misdemeanant : one who commits a misdemeanor

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