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Public disorder

public disorder. They can be dealt with under the powers to maintain law and order but cannot be detained on the ground that they were disturbing public order, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Sanjai Pratap Gupta @

Quantity surveyor

Quantity surveyor. A person whose business consists in taking out in detain the measurements and quantities from plans prepared by an architect for the purpose of enabling builders to calculate

Recaption

injured. This happens when anyone has deprived another of his property, in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant, in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or

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Reception order

a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by inquisition, can be received or detained as a per-son of unsound mind except under the authority of (1) a reception order, or (2) an

Replegiare

Replegiare, to redeem a thing detained or taken by another, by giving sureties.

Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm

to do some other grievous bodily harm, or with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detaining of any person, is a felony; see 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 18.

Slavery

1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, pp. 65 et seq., where it was held that a person forcibly detained as a slave was entitled to be discharged on a habeas corpus. 1. A situation in which one

Such detention

detention is to continue because the decision about the period of detention can only be taken by the detaining authority, State of West Bengal v. Ashok Dey, (1972) 1 SCC 199; Pooran Lal v. Union of India,

Transportation for life

Transportation for life, a person sentenced to trans-portation for life may be detained in prison for life, Sambha Ji Krishan Ji v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1974 SC 147: (1974) 1

Trespass

another is a trespass, for which an action of trespass in assault and will lie. Taking of and detaining a man's goods are respectively trespasses, for which an action of trespass on the case in trover and

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