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Force-custody

Force-custody, 'Force custody' means the arrest or confinement or a member, of the Force according to rules. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (4 of

Habitual criminal

(1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]. See PREVENTIVE DETENTION. A person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is

Municipality

by the incorporation of the people of a prescribed locality invested with the subordinate powers of legislation to arrest in the civil government of the state and to regulate and administer local and internal affairs of the

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Fresh suit, or Pursuit

a police officer to make a warrantors search of a fleeing suspect or to cross jurisdictional lines to arrest a fleeing suspect, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 677.

Fugitive

1. A person who flees or escape; a refuge 2. A criminal suspects who flees evades, or escapes arrest prosecution, or imprisonment, esp. by fleeing jurisdiction or by hiding, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680.

Furtum

of stealing, against the will of the proprietor whose property it was.) Furtum non est ubi initium habet detentionis per dominium rei. 3 Inst. 107.--(There is no theft where the foundation of the detention is based upon

Furtum non est ubi initium habet detentionis per dominum rei

Furtum non est ubi initium habet detentionis per dominum rei, [Lat.], It is not theft where the commencement of the detention arises through the will

Gamekeepers

who have not been appointed in accordance with this Act; those appointed under the Act have powers of arrest, while others have not.

General warrant

General warrant, A process from the Secretary of State, to arrest (without naming any person) the author, printer, and publisher of such libels as were specified in it. It

Ground on which the order has been made

order was based, Shamrao Vishnu Parulekar v. District Magistrate, AIR 1957 SC 23 (26): (1956) SCR 644. [Prevention Detention Act, (4 of 1950), s. 3(3)]

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