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Obscene

feeling of disgust and revulsion and also boredom but does not have the effect of depraving, debasing and corrupting the morals of any reader of the novel, whereas obscenity has the tendency to deprave and corrupt those

Particulars

'Particulars' was in ss. 83 and 90 of Representation of the People Act, 1951 means 'instances' of a corrupt practice, Sangappa v. Shivamurti Swamy, AIR 1958 Mys 120 (124). [Representation of the People Act, 1951, s. 90

Public interest

honest and efficient persons are to be retained in service while the services of the dishonest or the corrupt or who are almost dead wood, are to be dispensed with, State of Gujarat v. Suryakant Chunilal Shah,

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Public meeting

such writ is made, he shall be guilty of an illegal practice within the meaning of the (English) Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883, and in any other case shall, on summary conviction, be liable to

Quo warranto

generally adopted for the purpose of trying the right to be elected to municipal offices, but the (English) Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, by s. 12, replaced by the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 87

Material facts and material particulars

him to prepare for trial in a case where his election is challenged on the ground of any corrupt practice, Roop Lal Sathi v. Nachhattar Singh Gill, AIR 1982 SC 1559: (1982) 3 SCC 487: (1983) 1

True copy

serving a 'true copy' of an election petition and the affidavit filed in support of the allegations of corrupt practice on the respondent in the election petition is to enable the respondent to understand the charge against

Simony

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward

Nidorous

Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat or of corrupt animal matter

Perjure

to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue to make guilty of perjury to forswear to corrupt often used reflexively as he perjured himself

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