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Previous conviction
4, c. 28), reciting that 'it is expedient to provide for the more exemplary punishment of offenders who commit felony after a previous conviction for felony,' empowered a Court to inflict transportation for life and whipping for
Qu' est eadem
is the same). In trespass and other actions, when the plea necessarily stated the trespass to have been committed at some other time, place, etc., than that laid in the declaration, it was usual, before the conclusion
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,
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Record, Courts of
fine and imprison for contempt of its authority; an inferior court of record can only commit for contempts committed in open court, in facie curi'. See Co. Litt. 117 b, 260 a; Odgers on the Common Law;
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
Spinning-house
CBNS 523; Broom's Const. Law, p. 734, in which the Vice-Chancellor was unsuccessfully sued by a Cambridge milliner committed by him after apprehension by a proctor, and Ex parte Hopkins, (1891) 61 LJQB 240, where the conviction
Lurking house-trespass
Lurking house-trespass, whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or
Suicide and euthanasia
in a sound mental condition, has been regarded as one of the prerequisites. So, if one could legally commit suicide, he could also give consent for his being allowed to die. But then, the legal and other
Summary jurisdiction
jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a court to give a judgment or make an order itself forthwith, e.g., to commit to prison for contempt, to punish malpractice in a solicitor, or in the case of justices of the
Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in
attributes of this estate are these:- (1) The tenant is dispunishable for waste; he may, therefore, not only commit it, but also convert to his own use the property wasted. Equity, however, will restrain him from committing
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