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Secret

official secrets, see that title; and as to secrets of the confessional, see CONFESSION. As to secret commission, corruptly taken by an agent from the party with whom he is employed by his principal to transact business

Criminal information

informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppressive conduct if arising from corrupt andmalicious motives, and not from mere error of judgment. The procedure on criminal information is regulated by the

Nicolaitan

One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus who are censured in Rev ii 6 15

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Election Commissioners

Parliament to inquire into the report made by judges on the trial of an election petition (q.v.) that corrupt and illegal practices took place on an extensive scale at an election. The Commissioners report to Parliament, whereupon

Election petitions

[(English) Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, s. 11; the Judicature Act, 1925, s. 67; the (English) Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1879]. The judges selected for this duty are known as election judges. See Fraser's Parl. Elect.

Electoral roll

not a citizen of India or is of unsound mind or is disqualified under the law dealing with corrupt practices and other offences relating to elections, Law of Elections, P.D.T. Achary, 2004, p. 7.

Illegal practices

Illegal practices. dishonest and evil practices against law. See CORRUPT PRACTICES; CORRUPTION.

Indecent representation of women

to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to, or denigrating, women, or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals. [Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (60 of 1986), s.

Judgment

and is not liable to be dismissed on ground of non-joinder of the person against whom allegations of corrupt practice are made in the petition, is not a 'judgment' appealable under Clause 15, Indulal Kanaiyalal Yagnik v.

Lurgulary

Lurgulary, casting any corrupt or poisonous thing into the water.

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