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Purchasable

Capable of being bought purchased or obtained for a consideration hence venal corrupt

Quech

A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacons Essays and probably meaning to stir to move

Reform

to change from worse to better to amend to correct as to reform a profligate man to reform corrupt manners or morals

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Seduce

duty in any manner to entice to evil to lead astray to tempt and lead to iniquity to corrupt

Reformation

being reformed change from worse to better correction or amendment of life manners or of anything vicious or corrupt as the reformation of manners reformation of the age reformation of abuses

Appointment in exercise of a Power

share. See also FRAUDS ON POWERS. Frauds on powers of appointment.'Where a limited power is executed for a corrupt purpose as by a bargain with any of the proper objects of the power to benefit the appointor,

Attaint, writ of

was abolished by the (English) County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), ss. 60, 61. A corrupt juror is punishable by fine and imprisonment, upon an indictment or information.

Attorney-General

fiat or consent is required before certain proceedings or prosecutions can be commenced (see, e.g., (English) Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906). In many cases also (see e.g., (English) Lunacy Act,

Bhrashtachar

generally does not take them by their words. Even literally, 'bhrashtachar' and 'bhrashtachari' will not inevitably establish a corrupt practice, Laxminarayan v. Returning officer, (1974) 3 SCC 425: AIR 1974 SC 66 (83). [Representation of the People

Bill of Rights

the freedom of election of members to serve in Parliament; by violent prosecutions and the causing partial and corrupt jurors to be returned on trials, excessive bail to be taken, excessive fines to be imposed, and cruel

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