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Inveniens libellum famosum et non corrumpens punitur

Inveniens libellum famosum et non corrumpens punitur [Lat.], he who meets with a notorious libel, and does not destroy it, is punished.

Falsification

or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer, or servant, shall wilfully and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security, or account which belongs to or is in

False pretence, obtaining property

injure any other person fradulently causes or induces any other person: (a) to execute, make, accept, endorse or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or (b) to write, impress or affix his name

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Fishery

fish is prescribed by Part III. Of the act of 1923. See TROUT. As to cutting through or destroying the dam, flood-gate, or sluice of, or putting lime or noxious materials in, a fishpond or water which

Constitutionalism

Constitutionalism, requires control over the exercise of governmental power to ensure that it does not destroy the democratic principles upon which it is based, I.R. Coelho v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2007) 2 SCC

Arsenals

It.], dockyards, magazines, and other military stores. It is a felony punishable by death to burn or otherwise destroy a royal arsenal (The (English) Dockyards, etc. Protection Act, 1772), (12 Geo. 3, c. 24); a felony punishable

Slay

put to death with a weapon or by violence hence to kill to put an end to to destroy

Abate

Abate [fr. Abbattre, Fr.], to prostrate, break down, remove, or destroy; also to let down or cheapen the price in buying or selling, Encyc. Londin. See ABATEMENT.

Airway

for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously fill up, obstruct, or damage, with intent to destroy, obstruct, or render useless the airway to any mine, is a felony punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment

Abolition

Abolition [fr. abolir, Fr.; aboleo, Lat.], a destroying; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution,

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