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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. ...
Breach of peace
Breach of peace, is the criminal offence of creating a public disturbance or engaging in disorderly conduct particularly by making an unnecessary or distracting noise, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 183.Breach of peace, takes place when either an assault is committed on an individual or public alarm and excitement is caused. Mere annoyance or insult is not enough; thus at common law a householder could not give a man into custody for violently and persistently ringing his door-bell. It is the particular duty of a Magistrate or Police Officer to preserve the peace unbroken, hence if he has reasonable cause to believe that a breach of the peace is imminent he may be justified in committing an assault or effecting an arrest; R.F.V. Heuston, Salmond on the Law of Torts, 131 (17th Edn., 1977).Means a disturbance of public peace order, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 59.Breach of peace, offences against the public, which are either actual violations of the peace, or c...
Conduct disgraceful in a professional respect
Conduct disgraceful in a professional respect, is not limited either to conduct involving moral turpitude or to a veterinary surgeon's conduct in pursuit of his profession, but may extand to conduct which, although reprehensible in anyone, is, in the case of a professional man, so much more reprehensible as to be disgraceful, in the sense that it tends to bring disgrace to the profession which he practise, Marten v. Disciplinary Committee of Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, (1966) 1 QB 1: (1965) 1 All ER 949 DC, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 571, p. 318.When misconduct is proved, the House can impose punishments such as admonition, reprimand, withdrawal from the House, suspension from the service of the House, imprisonment and expulsion from the House. In case the grossly disorderly conduct of a member in the House, the Speaker may direct him to withdraw immediately from the House. If he persists in disregarding the authority of the Chair, he may be named by the Chair a...
breach of the peace
breach of the peace 1 : a disturbance of public peace or order [insulting language causing a breach of the peace] see also fighting words 2 : the offense of causing a breach of the peace compare disorderly conduct ...
moral turpitude
moral turpitude 1 : an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community 2 : a quality of dishonesty or other immorality that is determined by a court to be present in the commission of a criminal offense [a crime involving moral turpitude] compare malum in se NOTE: Whether a criminal offense involves moral turpitude is an important determination in deportation, disbarment, and other disciplinary hearings. Past crimes involving moral turpitude usually may also be introduced as evidence to impeach testimony. Theft, perjury, vice crimes, bigamy, and rape have generally been found to involve moral turpitude, while liquor law violations and disorderly conduct generally have not. ...
Ragging
Ragging, any disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student. The cause of indulging in ragging is deriving a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by the seniors over their juniors or freshers, President v. J. Mission v. Cabinet Secretary, AIR 2001 SC 2793 (2794): (2001) 6 SCC 577.Ragging, means the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, physiological harm or ...
free for all
a noisy and disordered fight conducted without rules...
Mala praxis
Mala praxis. If the health of an individual be injured by the unskillful or negligent conduct of a surgeon, or apothecary, or general practitioner, in assuming to heal a dislocated or fractured limb, or internal disorder, an action for compensation may be sustained, Seare v. Prentice, (1807) 8 East 348....
Pre-natal diagnostic test
Pre-natal diagnostic test, means ultrasonography or any test or analysis of amniotic fluid, chorionic villi, blood or any tissue of a pregnant woman conducted to detect genetic or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or congenital anomalies or haemoglobinopathies or sex-linked disease. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (k)]...
Expunction of remarks
Expunction of remarks, in Parliament, deletion of defamatory, indecent, unparliamentary or undignified words, phrases or expressions from the proceedings of the House by an order of the Speaker, Handbook of Members of Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th Edn., 1999, p. 71.Is an act of striking out, erasion, deletion or cancellation, Webster American Dictionary, p. 410.In British Parliament, if a member uses disorderly, offensive or unparliamentary words in a debate, immediate notice is taken if such words. If a member desires that such words be noted, he has to repeat those words exactly as they were spoken. If the Speaker or Chairman is of the view that the words spoken were disorderly or after ascertaining sense of the House directs the clerk to take down such words, he asks the member to withdraw them. If the member refuses to do so or does not offer apology Speaker repeats his call and if the member does not respond to it, Speaker takes action in pursuance of S.O. 43, Practice and Procedure...
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