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Common informer

Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws,

given under sub-s. (1) of s. 154 Cr PC is commonly known as first information report (FIR) though this term is … First information report, An information given under sub-s. (1) of s. 154

Informer

or penal statute; also an approver. See QUI TAM; APPROVER; COMMON INFORMER. Means (1) Informant (2) A private citizen who brings a

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digital computer

by numerical digits with a fixed number of values most commonly each piece of information is internally represented in binary code … a computer that represents information by numerical digits with a fixed number of values most

Penal statute

recoverable by the Crown, or the party aggrieved, or a common informer, as the case may be. See 4 Hen. 7, c.

Compounding

6 QB 308; (1846) 9 QB 371; Odgers on the Common Law. And compounding offences only cognizable before magistrates on summary … Building Society, (1892) 1 Ch 173. Penal actions by common informers may be compounded by leave of the Court; this leave

Larceny (Advertisement) Act, 1870 (English)

anyone suing for it. This leading to vexatious actions by common informers against the publishers of newspapers, the Act of 1870 … suing for it. This leading to vexatious actions by common informers against the publishers of newspapers, the Act of 1870 enacts

Person

person for the purpose of suing the penalties as a common informer unless expressly empowered by statute to do so, Guardians of

Promoter

Promoter, a term anciently sometimes applied to a common informer generally (see 5 Inst. 191), but in modern times applied

Libel

to supply information does not create such a duty or common interest that communications made in fulfilment of the contractual obligations … general interest to the public. No privilege, however, attaches to information supplied by a trade protection society to its customers for

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