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Public servant

Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)] Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian...

Obscene

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived...

Commission Agent or Broker

Commission Agent or Broker, means a person who in the ordinary course of business makes contracts for the sale or purchase of excisable goods for others. [Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), s. 2 (aaa)]...

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In discharge of his duty

In discharge of his duty, In view of the words 'by otherwise abusing his position' read along with the words 'in the discharge of his duty' in s. 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947,...

Illegal practices

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

Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...

Attorney-General

Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes...

A vinculo matrimonii

A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as...

Martinmas

Martinmas, the feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th November; sometimes corrupted into martilmas or martlemas. It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the year.

Malversation

Malversation, misbehaviour in an office, employment, or commission, as breach of trust, extortion, etc. Malversation, official corruption, a misbehaviour, especially by someone exercising an office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 971.

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Public servant

Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)] Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian...

Obscene

Obscene, means if there be no abstract definition ........ Should not the word 'obscene' be allowed to indicate the present critical point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived...

Commission Agent or Broker

Commission Agent or Broker, means a person who in the ordinary course of business makes contracts for the sale or purchase of excisable goods for others. [Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), s. 2 (aaa)]...

Keep your definitions linked to case research

In discharge of his duty

In discharge of his duty, In view of the words 'by otherwise abusing his position' read along with the words 'in the discharge of his duty' in s. 5(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947,...

Illegal practices

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

Civil Law

Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law. The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to...

Attorney-General

Attorney-General, a great officer of state appointed by letters-patent, and the legal representative of the Crown in the Supreme Court. He is also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes...

A vinculo matrimonii

A vinculo matrimonii. (From the bond of wedlock). It was a total divorce obtained from the Ecclesiastical Court on some canonical impediment existing before marriage and not arising afterwards, for the marriage was declared void, as...

Martinmas

Martinmas, the feast of St. Martin of Tours, on the 11th November; sometimes corrupted into martilmas or martlemas. It is the third of the four cross quarter-days of the year.

Malversation

Malversation, misbehaviour in an office, employment, or commission, as breach of trust, extortion, etc. Malversation, official corruption, a misbehaviour, especially by someone exercising an office, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 971.

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