Disorder - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: disorderdisorderly conduct
disorderly conduct : conduct that is likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency ;also : the petty offense of engaging in disorderly conduct compare breach of the peace NOTE: The term disorderly conduct is used in statutes to identify various acts against the public peace. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, the blocking of public ways, and the making of threats. A statute must identify acts that constitute disorderly conduct with sufficient clarity in order to avoid being held unconstitutional because of vagueness. ...
Public disorder
Public disorder, is wide enough to cover a small riot an affray and other cases where peace is disturbed by or affects a small group of persons, Brij Bhushan v. State of Delhi, AIR 1950 SC 129: (1950) Cr LJ 1525.Means every breach of the peace does not lead to public disorder. When two drunkards quarrel and fight there is disorder but not public disorder. They can be dealt with under the powers to maintain law and order but cannot be detained on the ground that they were disturbing public order, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Sanjai Pratap Gupta @ Pappu, (2004) 8 SCC 591....
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
Disorder
Want of order or regular disposition lack of arrangement confusion disarray as the troops were thrown into disorder the papers are in disorder...
Disordered
Thrown into disorder deranged as a disordered house judgment...
Disorderly
Not in order marked by disorder disarranged immethodical as the books and papers are in a disorderly state...
mental disorder
mental disorder : mental illness ...
Disord
Disorder...
manic disorder
An affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently...
Idle and disorderly person
Idle and disorderly person. unsettled, tramp see VAGRANT....
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