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Foreign power

power, Jaqan Natu Sathe v. Union of India, AIR 1960 SC 625 (628): (1960) 2 SCR 784. [Preventive Detention Act, (4 of 1950), s. 3]

Hue and Cry

be ready and appareled at the command of the sheriff, and at the cry of the country to arrest a felon,' and in default 'shall on conviction be liable to a fine.' But if a man wantonly

Firearms

24 Geo. 5, c. 50), makes the use or attempted use of firearms or imitation firearms to avoid arrest punishable with a maximum of fourteen years penal servitude, and also for being in possession of such firearms

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Defence of a country or the security of a country

liberty. So it is that the founding fathers with considerable wisdom and foresight provided for laws for preventive detention and the limitations thereon mentioned in Article 22 of the Constitution, Giani Bakshish Singh v. Government of India,

Discharge

(1999) 6 SCC 275. Used in sub-s. (3) of s. 50 is used in the sense that the detention is terminated, State of Rajasthan v. Ram Chandra, (2005) 5 SCC 151 [Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act,

Drugs, Dangerous

Council may only be imported or exported by license: their manufacture and sale are regulated. Wide powers of arrest are given to the police and severe penalties provided for offenders against these Acts. The (English) Extradition Act,

Drunkenness

the first instance, the Act of 1898 is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on indictment of an offence committed under the influence

Duces tecum licet languidus

Duces tecum licet languidus, a writ directed to the sheriff upon a return that he cannot bring his prisoner without danger of death, he being adeo languidus; whereupon the Court grants a habeas corpus in the...

Earliest opportunity

expeditiously as possible. The opportunity con-templated by the section is the opportunity to make a representation against the detention order to the Government and therefore ex hypothesi soon after the person is deprived of his personal liberty

Fare

the carriages used, and avoiding payment of them is punishable by fine up to 40s. with liability to arrest. As to fares on public service vehicles, see (English) Traffic Acts, 1930, s. 72, and 1934, s. 40.

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