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Quo warranto

right to be elected to municipal offices, but the (English) Corrupt Practices (Municipal Elections) Act, 1872, by s. 12, replaced by

Public interest

in service while the services of the dishonest or the corrupt or who are almost dead wood, are to be dispensed

Judgment

ground of non-joinder of the person against whom allegations of corrupt practice are made in the petition, is not a 'judgment'

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Peine forte et dure

(the strong and hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment

Particulars

Representation of the People Act, 1951 means 'instances' of a corrupt practice, Sangappa v. Shivamurti Swamy, AIR 1958 Mys 120 (124).

Oxgang or Oxgate

Oxgang or Oxgate, fifteen acres of land. Corrupted, in the north, to osken, Kelm. Domes. Illustr.

Mise

the issue in a writ of right. It is sometimes corruptly used for measeor mees-i.e., a messuage.

Material facts and material particulars

where his election is challenged on the ground of any corrupt practice, Roop Lal Sathi v. Nachhattar Singh Gill, AIR 1982

Martinmas

of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th November; sometimes corrupted into martilmas or martlemas. It is the third of the

Malecreditus, one of bad credit, who is not to be trusted, Fleta, 1.1, c. xxxviii.

corrumpit textum. 4 Co. 35.-(It is a bad exposition which corrupts the text.)

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