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Home Dictionary Name: enemyEnemy or 'enemy subject' or 'enemy firm'
Enemy or 'enemy subject' or 'enemy firm' means a person or country who or which was an enemy, an enemy subject or an enemy firm, as the case may be, under the Defence of India Act, 1962 (51 of 1962), and the Defence of India Rules, 1962 2[or the Defence of India Act, 1971 (12 of 1971), and the Defence of India Rules, 1971], but does not include a citizen of India. [Enemy Property Act, 1968 (34 of 1968), s. 2(b)]...
Alien enemy
Alien enemy, a subject of a nation which is at war with this country. A contract with him is void, Brandon v. Nesbitt, (1794) 6 TR 23, unless he have a safe conduct or be living in this country by licence of the Crown; and so is a contract with his wife, De Wahl v. Braune, (1856) 25 LJ Ex 343. Further, not only commercial intercourse but all intercourse with an alien enemy is prohibited by the common law; see The Hoop, (1799) 1 C Rob 196, where Sir William Scott described an alien enemy as 'totally ex lege'; The Cosmopolite, (1801) 4 C Rob 8; The Panariellos, (1915) 138 LT Journ 484. Nor can an alien enemy exercise a right of voting in respect of shares in an English company, Robson v. Premier Oil Co., 1915 (2) Ch 124, nor (unless within the realm by the King's licence) can he sue here during the war, though he remains liable to be sued, Porter v. Freudenbery, 1915 (1) KB 857. As to the Crown's right at common law to forfeit the private property of subjects of an enemy state, see In re...
Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914
Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914 (English) (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 87), provided that any person who 'dur-ing the present war [i.e., the war with Germany] trades or has since 4th August, 1914, traded with the enemy within the meaning of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. The Act was partly repealed [S. R. & O. 1921 (No. 1276), and see 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 43]. As to what constitutes an alien enemy, see Daimler Co. v. Continental Tyre Co., (1916) 2 AC 307....
Enemy
One hostile to another one who hates and desires or attempts the injury of another a foe an adversary as an enemy of or to a person an enemy to truth or to falsehood...
Enemy, trading with
Enemy, trading with. See the following Acts directed against trading with the enemy during the Great War:-(English) 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 87, 5 Geo. 5, c. 12, 5 & 6 Geo. 5, cc. 79, 98, 105, and 6 & 7 Geo. 5, cc. 32, 52....
Enemy
Enemy, means:(i) any person or country committing external aggression against India,(ii) any person belonging to a country committing such aggression,(iii) such other country as may be declared by the Central government to be assisting the country committing such aggression,(iv) any person belonging to such other country.[Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1962, s. 2(3),One who opposes or inflicts injury on another;an antagonist, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 548.Includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to this Act to take action. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2 (1) (j)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any person in arms against whom it is the duty of any person subject to military law to act. [Army Act, 1950 (46 of 1950), s. 3 (x)]It includes all armed mutineers, armed rebels, armed rioters, pirates and any pe...
Contraband
Contraband [fr. Contra, Lat., against; and bando, Ital., edict], such goods as are prohibited to be imported or exported, bought or sold, either by the laws of a particular state or by special treaties; also a term applied to designate that class of commodities which neutrals are not allowed to carry during war to a belligerent power.It is a recognized general principle of the law of nations, that ships may sail to and trade with all kingdoms, countries, and states in peace with the princes or authorities whose flags they bear; and that they are not to be molested by the ships of any other power at war with the country with which they are trading, unless they engage in the conveyance of contraband goods. But great difficulty has arisen in deciding as to the goods comprised in this term.In order to obviate all disputes as to what commodities should be deemed contraband, they have sometimes been specified in treaties or conventions. But this classification is not always respected during ...
Hostile
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy showing the disposition of an enemy showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure occupied by an enemy or enemies inimical unfriendly as a hostile force hostile intentions a hostile country hostile to a sudden change...
Active service
Active service. 'on active service,' as applied to a person subject to military law, is defined by the (English) Army Act (44 & 45 Vict. C. 58) as meaning 'whenever he is attached to or forms part of a force which is engaged in operations against the enemy or is engaged in military operations in a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy or is in military occupation of any foreign country.'As applied to a person subject to this Act, means the time during which such person--(a) in attached to, or forms part of, a force which is engaged in operations against an enemy, or (b) is engaged in air force operations in, or is on the line of march to, a country or place wholly or partly occupied by an enemy; or (c) is attached to, or forms part of, a force which is in military occupation of any foreign country. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (i)] See also (5 of 1941), s. 2(a); (46 of 1950), s. 3(a)...
treason
treason [Anglo-French treison crime of violence against a person to whom allegiance is owed, literally, betrayal, from Old French traïson, from traïr to betray, from Latin tradere to hand over, surrender] : the offense of attempting to overthrow the government of one's country or of assisting its enemies in war ;specif : the act of levying war against the United States or adhering to or giving aid and comfort to its enemies by one who owes it allegiance trea·son·ous [-əs] adj ...
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