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constitutional immunity
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privileges and immunities clause
privileges and immunities clause often cap P&I&C 1 : a clause in Article IV of the U.S. Constitution stating that the citizens of each state of the U.S. shall be entitled to all the privileges and … privileges and immunities clause often cap P&I&C 1 : a clause in Article IV of the U.S. Constitution stating that the
state action
the subject of a claim brought under federal law (as section 1983) by one alleging a violation of constitutional rights, privileges, or immunities. 2 : state efforts to displace competition with regulation or a state-supervised monopoly NOTE: … claim brought under federal law (as section 1983) by one alleging a violation of constitutional rights, privileges, or immunities. 2 : state efforts to displace competition with regulation or a state-supervised monopoly NOTE: Such efforts are immune
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Privilege
Parliament which may be necessary for the vindication or protection of itself in the exercise of its own constitutional functions. In the daily proceedings of Parliament questions of privilege take precedence of all other business. The privileges … service. See also the following titles and DISTRESS; LIBEL. The word privilege is sufficiently wide to include an immunity, Mohanlal Jain v. His Highness Maharaja Shri Sawai Man Singh Ji, AIR 1962 SC 73 (75, 76): (1962)
Personal liberty
India Art. 21] The juristic conception of 'personal liberty', when these words are used in the sense of immunity from arrest, is that it consists in freedom of movement and locomotion, A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras, … Personal liberty, in Art. 21 of the Constitution of India takes in the right of locomotion and to travel abroad and no person can be deprived
Power
reference to the effect of dissolution, Purushottam Nambudri v. State of Kerala, AIR 1962 SC 694. [See also Constitution of India, Arts. 149(3), 196] Power, must be construed with respect to privileges and immunities, Purushottam Nambudri v. … Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, (2000) 3 SCC 184. Power, must be considered along with the words 'privileges and immunities' to which the said clause refers, and there can be no doubt that the said words can have
privilege
reporter's privilege in this entry privilege against self-incrimination : a privilege under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protecting a person from compulsion to make self-incriminating statements re·port·er's privilege : a privilege protecting a reporter from … sacred rights considered as particularly guaranteed to all persons by a constitution and esp. by the privileges and immunities clause of the U.S. Constitution
right
a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do
Paramount parchment
Paramount parchment, term denoting the Constitution of India. '...the immunity of the judiciary must be studied with aware allegiance to the scheme and sweep
Legal fiction
which flow from that state of facts have got to be worked out to their logical extent, Bengal Immunity Co. v. State of Bihar, (1955) 2 SCR 603: AIR 1955 SC 661 (709). [Constitution of India, Article
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