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Continuing offence, means type of crime which is committed over a span of time, Gokal Patel Volkart Ltd. v. Dundoyya Guru Shiddaiah Hiremath, (1991) 2 SCC 141 (145). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 472 and 468(2)(a)]A continuing offence is one which is susceptible of continuance and is distinguishable from the one which is committed once and for all. It is one of those offences which arises out of a failure to obey or comply with a rule or its requirement and which involves a penalty, the liability for which continues until the rule or its requirement is obeyed or complied with. On every occasion that such disobedience or non-compliance occurs and reoccurs, there is the offence committed. The distinction between the two kinds of offences is between an act or omission which constitutes an offence once and for all and an act or omission which continues, and therefore, constitutes a fresh offence every time or occasion on which it continues, State of Bihar v. Deokaran Nenshi, (1972) 2 ...
Continuing default
Continuing default, in 'Words and Phrases', Permanent Edition, under the head 'Continuing Offence', instances have been given which indicate that as long as the default continues the offence is deemed to repeat and, therefore, it is taken as a continuing offence, Maya Rani Ponj v. C.I.T, AIR 1986 SC 293 (299): (1986) 1 SCC 445....
Desertion
Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg. v. Cuming, (1887) 19 QBD 13.Also (2) an abandonment of a wife, a matrimonial offence, for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as to orders for the protection of the property of wives deserted by their husbands; and the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), repealing and re-enacting the (English) Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act, 1886, under which a deserted wife may obtain an order from justices of the peace that the husband pay her such weekly sum, n...
Habitually
Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappu Nawabkhan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985, s. 2(c)]The word 'habitually'connotes some degree of fre-quency and continuity. It requires a continuance and permanence of some tendency, something that has developed into a propensity, that is, present from day-to-day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fourth Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1204, Vijay Narain Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1984 SC 1334 (1338): (1984) 3 SCC 14: (1984) 3 SCR 435.Means 'usually' and 'generally', Mustakmiya Jabbar-miya Shaikh v. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police, (1995) 3 SCC 237.Would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing ...
Same transaction
Same transaction, between a series of acts seems to be an essential ingredient for those acts to constitute the same transaction, State of Andhra Pradesh v. Cheemalapati Ganeswara Rao, AIR 1963 SC 1850: (1963) 2 Cr LJ 671.Means in order that a series of acts be regarded as parts of 'the same transaction', they must be connected together in some way, for instance, by proximity of time, unity of place, unity or continuity of purpose or design, or continuity of action. Proximity of time and unity of place are not essential, though they furnish good evidence of what unites several acts. If any of these things happens and the whole process is begun over again, it is not the same transaction but a new one, in spite of the fact that the same general purpose may continue, Shapurji Sorabji v. Emperor, AIR 1936 Bom 154; Debi Prasad v. Emperor, 212 IC 135: Raj Kishore Tewari v. Rex, AIR 1949 All 139; Faiz Mohammad v. Emperor, (1945) ILR 1945 Ker 100.Same transaction, suggests a continuity of acti...
Prerogative of mercy
Prerogative of mercy. In early times the operation of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy was far wider than at the present day, as it was not only extended to some persons who in later ages would not be considered to have incurred any criminal respon-sibility, e.g., persons who had committed homicide by misadventure or in self-defence (Pollock and Maitland's Hist. Engl. Law, vol. ii., pp. 476 et seq.), but was even extended to jurors who had been attained for an oath that, though not false, was fatuous: ibid. p. 661. The power of pardoning offences is stated by Blackstone to be one of the great advantages of monarchy in general above every other form of government, and which cannot subsist in democracies. Its utility and necessity are defended by him on all those principles which do honour to human nature: see 4 Bl. Com. c. 31, p. 397. In early times, again, there were fewer offences that did not admit of being pardoned. In appeals (i.e., private accusations of felony) which were not the s...
Habitual criminal
Habitual criminal, A person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappubhan Navab Khan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]. See PREVENTIVE DETENTION.A person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be continuity in commission of those offences, R. Kalavathi v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2006) 6 SCC 14: (2006) 6 JT 69: (2006) 6 SCALE 385: (2006) 5 Supreme 116: (2006) 5 SLT 321: (2006) 6 SCJ 69: (2006) 7 SCJD 583: (2006) 8 SRJ 57: (2006) 3 SCC (Cri) 11: (2006) 3 Crimes 7 (SC): (2006) 2 JCC 1185: (2006) 3 Recent CR...
Sunday
Sunday [fr. sunnan daeg, Sax., the day of the sun], the first day of the week, the Lord's Day, termed in the Sunday Observance Act, 1677 (29 Car. 2, c. 7, infra), 'the Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday.' It is a dies non juridicus, but an arrest for crime can be effected on this day; and bail can arrest their principal, and a sergeant-at-arms can apprehend; but no other law proceedings can be taken. By the Sunday Observance Act, 1677, it is enacted that:-No tradesmen, artificers, workmen, labourers, or other person whatsoever shall do or exercise any worldly labour, business, or work of their ordinary callings [barbers are not within the enactment: Palmer v. Snow, (1900) 1 QB 725] upon the Lord's Day, or any part thereof (works of necessity and charity only excepted).The (English) Hairdressers and Barbers Shops (Sunday Closing) Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 35), prohibits opening on Sundays (Jewish hairdressers may open on Sunday but must close on Saturday).The (English) Shops (Sunday...
Daily fine
Daily fine, means a fine for each day on which an offence is continued after conviction therefor. [Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (9 of 1910), s. 2 (d)]...
State trials
State trials, a work in thirty-three volumes octavo (from which 'selections' were brought out by Mr. J. Willis-Bund in 1880), containing all trials for offences against the State, and others partaking in some degree of that character, fro 1163 to 1820. Eight continuation volumes, for the period from 1820 o 1858 have been brought out under the auspices of a Government committee; the eighth and last volume contains the index, and appeared in 1898....
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