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Habeas corpora juratorum
prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time and place to decide the legality of his detention or imprison-ment, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856. Commands the Judge of the inferior court to produce the body
Fresh fact
fact, There may be facts which are not germane or are not relevant to the grounds justifying the detention and when s. 14 of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971 refers to fresh facts it does
Bail
may be given either in civil or criminal cases. In civil cases there were, before the abolition of arrest on mesne process by the Debtors Act, 1869:- (1) Common bail, or bail below, given to the sheriff,
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Vagueness of ground, irrelevant ground
it would cure the defect of a ground given which is extraneous to the purposes for which preventive detention may be ordered. Any such ground would vitiate the detention order at its inception. At any rate, this
Justifiable homicide
in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) In case of a riot or
Personal liberty
In England right to personal liberty means in substance a person's right not to be subjected to imprisonment, arrest or physical coercion in any manner that does not admit of legal justification; secured by the strict maintenance
Revocation
all orders invalid as well as valid, Hadibandu Das v. District Magistrate, AIR 1969 SC 43 (48). [Preventive Detention Act, 1950, s. 13(2)] The undoing of a thing granted, or a destroying or making void of some
Interest
Cir. Interest, inter alia as the compensation fixed by agreement or allowed by law for the use or detention of money, or for the loss of money by one who is entitled to its use; especially, the
Civil prison
Civil prison, means any jail or place used for the detention of any criminal prisoner under the Prisons Act, 1894, or under any other law for the time being
seizure
evidence found in plain view] see also plain view b : the seizing of a person (as for arrest or investigation) see also arrest, stop compare search NOTE: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the
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