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Messenger
sent with dispatches, foreign and domestic (now called King's Messengers). They were employed with the secretaries' warrants to arrest persons for treason, or other offences against the State, which did not so properly fall under the cognizance
Possession
legal senses do not always coincide with the popular sense. It may not always be synonymous with manual detention or physical retention of the goods or moneys, C.I.T. v. Tarsem Kumar, AIR 1986 SC 1477: (1986) 3
Music
having been discovered in Ex parte Francis, (1903) 1 KB 275; the Act of 1906 empowers constables to arrest, without warrant, sellers of music notified to the chief officer of police by the owners as copyright.
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Special case
Court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, any question of law arises on motion in arrest of judgment (or even independently of such motion), which such Court finds too difficult for its determination, it
Replevin
been wrongfully taken and is wrongfully detained, to recover possession of the property together with damages for its detention. To support the action it is necessary: (a) that the property shall be personal, (b) that the plaintiff,
Seizure
possession of a person or property by legal right or process, esp., in constitutional law, a confiscation or arrest that may interfere with a person's reasonable expectation of privacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1363. Merely
Serjeant
Coif. Lord Lindley, d. 1921, was the last surviving Serjeant-at-Law. (2) Serjeants-at-arms, officers attending the sover-eign's person to arrest individuals of distinction offending, and give attendance on the Lord High Steward of England, sitting in judgment on
Shakedown
an extortion of money using threats of violence or, in the case of a public officer, threats of arrest, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1379
Ship
or Ireland, or within three miles of the coast thereof, to apply to a judge to order the detention of the ship, if owned by foreigners none of whom reside in the United Kingdom, until the owners
Slavery
Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, pp. 65...
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