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warrant
to arrest and bring the person named in the warrant before the court or a magistrate NOTE: A criminal arrest warrant must be issued based upon probable cause. Not all arrests require an arrest warrant. bench warrant … bench warrant : a warrant issued by a judge for the arrest of a person who is in contempt of court or indicted death warrant : a warrant issued to a warden or other prison official to
Misprision
1 Hale, P.C. 374; 4 Steph. Com. Besides the last-described offence, the mere concealment of a felony is criminal, and is called misprision of felony; but if there be an assent, this makes the person assenting either … and concealing treasure-trove, are each of them species of negative misprision, 4 Steph. Com. (2) Positive, otherwise denominated contempts of high misdemeanours, such as the mal-administration of such high officers as are in public trust and employment,
Witness
but husbands and wives are not compellable to disclose communications between each other (s. 3 ibid.). As to criminal cases, see Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, as amended, and that title. A witness is not obliged to answer … evidence is actually required. If a witness who has been ordered out of Court remains, it is a contempt, if wilful and may be treated as such; but his evidence is not rejected. Each witness remains in
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Blasphemy
contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Also, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law, see Reg. v. Ramsay & Foote, (1993) 15
Arrest
suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ … to the power to arrest an absconding contributory in case of winding up by the Court. see also CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful arrests and suits
Infant
'No man ought, as a general rule, to be responsible for acts not his own.' As to the criminal liability of infants, see AGE; CHILDREN. Ward of Court.--The general superintendence and protective jurisdiction of the Court of … termed 'a ward of court.' The Court has jurisdiction to commit a ward of court to prison for contempt of Court, e.g., marrying without consent [Re H.'s Settlement, (1909) 2 Ch 260]. By the Judicature Act, 1925,
Abduction
other person having the lawful charge of her with intent that she shall be unlawfully and carnally known, Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 7. Reasonable belief that the girl was 'over 18' is a defence (Ib.). … c. 2), s. 11. (4) The removal of a ward of Court out of the jurisdiction: this is Contempt of Court (q.v.). See GUARDIAN. The statutes 13 Edw. 1, c. 34 & 35, dealing with the carrying
Court
Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms … s. 9A] Assistant Charity Commissioner is a Court for the purposes of ss. 2 and 3 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, K. Sham Rao v. Assistant Charity Commissioner, (2003) 3 SCC 563: 2003 Cri LJ
Sedition
Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, … default against any per-son for composing, printing, or publishing any seditious libel 'tending to bring into hatred or contempt' the person of the sovereign; or the Government and constitution of the United Kingdom as bylaw established or
Outlawry
by the Civil Procedure Acts Repeal Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 59), in civil proceedings. In criminal proceedings it is practically disused, but is formally kept alive by the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 … Outlawry [fr. utlagaria, Lat.], the being put out of the law for contempt in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Court. Outlawry has long been obsolete in
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