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Dismissal or removal or reduction in rank

a dismissal, removal or reduction in rank. A termination of service brought about by the exercise of a contractual right is not per se dismissal or removal. If the termination of service is founded on the right

Drunkenness

to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on indictment of an offence committed under the influence of drink, and punishable with imprisonment or penal servitude; and the Act also enacts that:

Dying declaration

opportunity of the dying man for observation, for example, whether there was sufficient light if the crime was committed at night, whether the capacity of the man to remember the facts stated had not been impaired at

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Earnest

the purchaser. (5) Unless there is anything to the contrary in the terms of the contract, on default committed by the buyer, the seller is entitled to forfeit the earnest, Shri Hanuman Cotton Mills v. Tata Air

Emblers de gentz

The phrase occurs in our old rolls of Parliament, 'Whereas divers murders, emblers de gentz, and robberies are committed,' etc., Rot. Parl., 21 Edw. 3, n. 62.

Emendare

Emendare, to make amends for any crime or trespass committed. And a capital crime, not to be atoned by fine, was said to be inemendabile, Leg. Canut. 2.

Entrustment

beneficial interest in the property in respect of which criminal breach of trust is alleged to have been committed, must be in some person other than the accused and the latter must hold it on account of

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

and has a right to be delivered, this writ ought of right to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the Privy Council, or any

Judgment

may be understood to mean the judgment which may be ultimately pronounced if the case were to be committed to a Court of Session, Rajender Kumar Jain v. State through Special Police Establishment, AIR 1980 SC 1510

Heat of passion

which the applicant would not have been subject under the law as it was a the time he committed the offence, Regina (Uttley) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, (2003) 1 WLR 2590 EWCA [See

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