Corruption - Law Dictionary Search Results
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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