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Payment of Money into Court
1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum of money by way of compensation or amends,
Prerogative Writs
Prerogative Writs, processes issued upon extra-ordinary occasions on proper cause shown. They are the writs of procedendo, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and certiorari. Prerogative writs are privileges of an extraordinary kind granted by the...
Rabbit
trespassers may be required to quit the land and to tell their names and abodes on pain of arrest on refusal, and similar trespass with violence by five or more armed persons is punishable by fine up
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Previous conviction
R., (1905) 2 KB 76. Multiplicata' transgressione crescat p'n' inflictio, 2 Inst. 479. And see PROBATION and PREVENTIVE DETENTION.
Procedendo
Procedendo, a writ which issued out of the Common Law jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery, when judges of any subordinate Court delayed the parties, for that they would not give judgment either on the one...
Pr'munire
Pr'munire [fr. pr'moneri Lat., to be forewarned]. It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: pr'munire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before...
Public meeting
if the constable reasonably suspects him of giving a false name and address, the constable may without warrant arrest him. Newspaper reports of public meetings (unless such report or publication was published or made maliciously) are 'privileged'
Public order
or the community ......, Mohammed Allabux v. State, AIR 1965 Guj 126. Public order, in regard to Preventive Detention Acts is an expression of wide connotation and signifies that state of tranquility prevailing among the members of
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of...
Quarantine
Quarantine, means a period of 40 days, especially for the isolation and detention of ships containing persons or animals suspected of having or carrying a dangerous communicable disease, in order to
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