Concealed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: concealedBirth, Concealing
Birth, Concealing. See Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 60, which enacts that every person who shall, by any secret disposition (see R. v. Brown, 1870 LR 1 CCR 244) of the dead body of a child, whether such child died before, at, or after his birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdeameanour, punishable with imprisonment not exceeding two years. To constitute the offence it must be established that the mother was delivered of a child within the meaning of the statute (see R. v. Colmer, 9 Cox, 506; R. v. Hewitt, 4 F. & F. 1101), that there was a definite act of concealment of the body as distinguished from abandonment, that the child was dead at the time, and that a body has been found and identified with that of the child to whom the charge relates. S. 60 of the Act provides, further, that if any woman tried for the murder of a child is acquitted thereof, she can lawfully be convicted of concealment of birth if there is evidence of that offence....
conceal
conceal 1 : to prevent disclosure of or fail to disclose (as a provision in a contract) esp. in violation of a duty to disclose 2 a : to place out of sight NOTE: A weapon need only be placed out of ordinary observation in order to be considered a concealed weapon. b : to prevent or hinder recognition, discovery, or recovery of [ing stolen property] con·ceal·ment n ...
Concealment
The act of concealing the state of being concealed...
Concealers
Concealers, such as were used to find out concealed lands, i.e., such lands as are privily kept from the king by common persons, having nothing to show for their title or estate therein, 39 Eliz. c. 23....
Concealment (Criminal)
Concealment (Criminal). (1) Of birth, see BIRTH. (2) Of documents of title to land, or of testamentary instruments, felony by (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 28, 29, and see (English) L.P. Act, 1925, s. 183, as to fradulent concealment of documents, and DIRECTORS and PROSPECTUS....
Material concealment of facts
Material concealment of facts, is a concealment of facts which if communicated to the other party to the contract, would induce him either to refuse to agree to it or not to agree to it except on modification of the terms thereof, Elton v. Larkins, 131 ER 376....
fraudulent concealment
fraudulent concealment : the intentional failure to disclose a material fact and esp. the existence of a cause of action by one under a duty to make such a disclosure to another who acts or fails to act in reliance and suffers a loss ...
Concealable
Capable of being concealed...
Concealer
One who conceals...
Concealment
Concealment, to the injury or prejudice of another. This must amount, in order to be deemed a fraud or to be a ground for rescission of the contract, to be suppression or non-disclosure of facts, which one, under the circumstances, is bound, both legally and equitably, to disclose to another, the latter having an undoubted right to be put in possession of such facts, as in the case of contracts of insurance. See Ionides v. Pender, (1874) LR 9 QB 531, as to marine insurance; and London Assurance Co. v. Mansel, (1879) 11 Ch D 363, as to life insurance, and as to contracts for the sale of land, see Flight v. Booth, 1 Bing NC 377; Terry v. White, 32 CD 29; and PROSPECTUS....
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