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Querela coram rege a concilio discutienda et terminanda

Querela coram rege a concilio discutienda et terminanda, a writ by which one is called to justify a complaint of a trespass made to the King himself, before the King and his council, Reg. Brev. 124. Means

Person accused of an offence

of Article 20(3). Such formal accusation may be specifically made against him in an FIR or a formal complaint or any other formal document or notice served on that person, which ordinarily results in his prosecution in

Indecent advertisement

Indecent advertisement, for the purposes of the (English) Indecent Advertisement Act, 1889, means any advertisement relating to any complaint or debility relating to or arising from sexual inter-course. The Act is directed against the public ex-hibition of

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Peace, Breach of the

and find sureties to keep the peace or be of good behaviour towards any other person on his complaint is regulated by s. 25 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'justices.'

Party

minor is not a 'party' within the meaning of section 195(1)(c) of Criminal Procedure Code against whom a complaint can be directed to be issued by an order under section 476 of Cr. P.C., 1898, for using

Or otherwise

in s. 18, clause (2) of the Delhi-Ajmer Rent Control Act do not merely mean on the oral complaint of some tenant'. They clearly cover a case in which some tenants in a newly constructed building complain

Omnis actio est loquela

Omnis actio est loquela [Lat.], every action is a complaint.

Offence

by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under s. 20 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of

New assignment

New assignment, a form of pleading which sometimes arose from the generality of the declaration, when, the complaint not having been set out with sufficient precision, it became necessary, from the evasiveness of the plea, to

Martinez report

that courts sometimes require a pro se party to file in order to clarify a vague or incomprehensible complaint, Martinez v. Aarwn, 570 F 2d 317 (10th Cir. 1978); Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 989.

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