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Conversion and detinue
person, he can be sued as for a conversion. The action of detinue is based upon a wrongful detention of the plaintiff's chattel by the defendant, evidence by a refusal to deliver it upon demand and the
Court
Court, compensation officer appointed under (English) Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar,...
Appropriate proceedings
Appropriate proceedings, Art. 32(1) guarantees a right to move by 'appropriate proceedings': there is therefore in the Article itself limitation upon the exercise of the right. Appropriate proceedings would include the procedure relating to form, conditions...
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Apprehension
Apprehension [fr. appreendere, Lat., to seize], the capture of a person upon a criminal charge. See ARREST.
Ambassador
94; Musurus Bey v. Godban, 1894 (2) QB 352). Ambassadors and their domestic servants are protected from civil arrest and their goods from seizure under distress or execution by the (English) Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne,
Air Force Custody
Air Force Custody, means the arrest or confinement of a person according to the usages of the service and includes military or naval custody.
Fainting
Syncope or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain the face becoming pallid the respiration feeble and the heats beat
VerbarHabeas corpus
party before a court or judge especially one to inquire into the cause of a persons imprisonment or detention by another with the view to protect the right to personal liberty also one to bring a prisoner
Hysterogenic
the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria
Imprison
To put in prison or jail To arrest and detain in custody to confine
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