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Home Dictionary Name: committableCommittal to prison
Committal to prison, if the Magistrate commits the fugitive criminal to prison he must commit him, subject to any appeal there to await the secretary of state's warrant for his surrender, and must send the secretary of state a certificate of the committal and such report upon the case, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 18, para 230, p. 95....
Committal
Committal. See also COMMITMENT....
Wilful disobedience
Wilful disobedience, 'willful disobedience' to a writ issued by a court constitutes civil contempt, though mere failure to obey the writ may not constitute civil contempt depending upon the facts and circumstances of the case. The appropriate mode of enforcing obedience to a writ of habeas corpus is by committal for contempt. A committal order may be made against a person who intentionally makes a false return to a writ of habeas corpus, but an unintentional misrepresentation on a return is not a ground for committal. Civil contempt is punishable with imprisonment as well as fine, Sebastian M. Hongray v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 1026: (1984) 3 SCR 544: (1984) 3 SCC 81 (82).If from the circumstances of a particular case, brought to the notice of the Court, the Court is satisfied that although there has been a disobedience but such disobedience is the result of some compelling circumstances under which it was not possible for the contemner to comply with the order, the Court may not p...
Committable
Capable of being committed...
Committal
The act of committing or the state of being committed commitment...
Committer
One who commits one who does or perpetrates...
Committible
Capable of being committed liable to be committed...
kurchatovium
A transuranic element of atomic number 104 symbol Ku also called rutherfordium symbol Rf It is produced in very small quantities by nuclear reactions In November 1993 the nomenclature committe of the American Chemical Society approved the name rutherfordium for element 104 Russsian investigators who claim to have first discovered element 104 isotope 260 half life 03 seconds in 1964 at Dubna proposed the name kurchatovium However investigators at Berkely in 1969 produced several isotopes of element 104 but were unable to produce isotope 260 they reported finding isotope 257 with a half life of 4 5 seconds isotope 259 with a half life of 3 4 seconds and isotope 258 with a shorter half life...
Admonition
Admonition, a judicial or ecclesiastic censure or reprimand. See MONITION.Admonition, means a mild rebuke, Webster Law Dictionary, p. 19.Means a reprimand to an accused person about to be discharged, A Dictionary of Law - William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 36.Means a punishment administered by the Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal; Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn. p. 138.In the House of Commons, (U.K.), when a person who is not a member is directed to be admonished, the offender, if he is in attendance, is brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded by the Speaker, if not in attendance, he is brought to the bar the following or some later day and admonished. Practice and Procedure of Parliament - M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 261.In the Lok Sabha, as well as in Rajya Sabha, as in the House of Commons, an offender whose of...
Attachment
Attachment, in relation to building, includes lamps, brackets, pipes, electric lines and apparatus required for street lighting purposes, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 400, Note 3, p. 291.Attachment means prohibition of transfer, conversion, disposition or movement of property by an order issued under Chapter III. [Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, (15 of 2003), s. 2(d)]A process from a Court of Record, awarded by the judges at their discretion on a bare suggestion, or on their own knowledge, against a person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning a Court; (4) Refusing to comply with the rules and awards of a Court; (5) Abuse of the process of a Court, and (6) Forgery of writs, or any other deceit tending to impose on a Court, Leach's Hawk. P. Cr., c. 22, s. 33. The issue of writs of attachm...
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