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warrant
warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...
Catallis captis nomine districtionis
Catallis captis nomine districtionis, an obsolete writ that lay where a house was within a borough, for rent issuing out of the same, and which warranted the taking of doors, windows, etc., by way of distress, Old Nat. Brev. 66....
Imprisonment
Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in theIndian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)]The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It extends in law to confinement not only in a gaol, but in a house, or stocks, or to hold-ing a man in the street, etc.; for in all these cases the person so restrained is said to be a prisoner, so long as he has not his liberty freely to go about his business as at other times, Co. Litt. 253. See FALSE IMPRISONMENT.Imprisonment for Crime.--Any common law mis-demeanour is punishable after conviction on indictment by fine or imprisonment or both, at the discretion of the court. Imprisonment for not more than two years is very frequently authorised, as an alternative to penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.' As to the right of any person convicted by a Court of Summ...
In custodia legis
In custodia legis [Lat.] (in the keeping of the law), a term used of goods which, from having been already seized by the sheriff under an execution, or being otherwise in the custody of the law, are exempt from distress for rent. By the Landlord and Tenant Act, 1709 (8 Anne, C. 18 [or 14], as amended by the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 35(2), the sheriff may not take goods on demised premises in execution unless the party at whose suit the execution issued pay to the landlord his arrears of rent, not exceeding six months' rent. As to goods seized under a County Court warrant, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 134, reproducing with amendments the 1888 Act, s. 160; Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 35....
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