Detainment - Law Dictionary Search Results

Hypothesis

purpose of argument or to account for a fact or an occurrence as the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer

Deforcement

which he that has a right to a freehold is kept out of possession. It is such a detainer of the freehold from him having the right of property, but not the possession under that right, as

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Recaption

goods chattels wife or children without force or violence from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them

A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained Originally it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress but it may generally now be brought

Replevy

To take or get back by a writ for that purpose goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law and if that should

Acquittal

Edn., p. 24. If person is acquitted and ordered to be discharged it is illegal any longer to detain him, and the duty of seeing that he is at once discharged is upon the governor of the

As soon as may be

of India, Art. 22(5)] As soon as may be, indicate a positive action on the part of the detaining authority in supplying the grounds of detention, Sophia Gulam Mohd. Bham v. State of Maharashtra, (1999) 6 SCC

Borstal institution

Prevention of Crime Act,1908, and the same section describes such institutions as 'places in which young offenders whilst detained may be given such industrial training and other instruction, and be subject to such disciplinary and moral influences

Burial ground

Statutes, tit. Burial' Baker or Little on the Law of Burial; and CREMATION. A creditor cannot arrest or detain the body of the deceased debtor. See per Lord Ellenborough in Jones v. Ashburnham, (1804) 4 East 455.

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