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Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...
Mesne process
IMPRISONMENT. By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest upon mesne process was relaxed, and confined to the case of a debtor about to quit England, and
Mace-proof
Mace-proof, secure against arrest.
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Made his appearance
time schedule for completion of investiga-tion and such time schedule is to commence either 'from the date of arrest of the accused or the date when he made his appearance in Court', State of West Bengal v.
Maintenance of public order
B. Sundara Rao v. State of Orissa, AIR 1972 SC 739 (742): (1972) 3 SCC 11. [Orissa Preventive Detention Act (4 of 1970), s. 3 (1)]
Maximum period
law fixing the maximum period under Article 22(7) (b), the longer period fixed under the later law of detention would become the maximum period. The word 'may' in Article 22(7) amounts to 'shall', Fagu Shaw v. State
Meditatio fug'
fight) may, by the law of Scotland, be arrested by warrant obtained for that purpose. Scots Law. See ARREST ON MESNE PROCESS.
Mentally ill prisoner
Mentally ill prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody, an
Husband and wife
Coleridge, J., in Ex parte Cochrane (1840) 8 Dowl. 630) considered to have a right to the personal custody of his wife; but in 1891 the Court of Appeal (Lords Halsbury and Esher and Sir Edward Fry)
Inquiry, writ of
r. 5, it is provided that where the defendant fails to appear and the plaintiff's claim is for detention of goods and damages, or either of them, interlocutory judgment may be entered, and a writ of inquiry
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