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Criminal Evidence Act

and 1853, whichmade parties and spouses admissible witnesses (they having been previously incompetent on the groundof interest), expressly excepted criminal proceedings from its opertion; but a series of enactments dealing with particular offences, from the Licensing Act,

Sessions of the peace

They are of three descriptions:- I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested

Special Leave to Appeal

where needs of justice demand interference by the highest court of the land; to be exercised only under exceptional circumstances, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. G, p. 305. The

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Victimisation

Disputes Act (14 of 1947), Sch. 2, item 6] If a person is made to suffer by some exceptional treatment it would amount to victimisation. The term 'victimisation' is of comprehensive import. It may be victimisation in

Extraordinary traffic

Extraordinary traffic means the carriage of articles over a road which is so exceptional in the quality or quantity of the articles carried, or in the mode of user of the road,

Public policy

that of the policy of law but has but has in fact always been so except in some exceptional instances of confusion which have has no substantial effect on the general course of authority, Murlidhar Aggarwal v.

Profiteering

Profiteering, profiteering has been defined as: Taking advantage of unusual or exceptional circumstances to make excessive profits, Islamic Academy of Education v. State of Karnataka, AIR 2003 SC 3724: (2003)

Privilege

484: (1975) 1 SCR 720. [Bombay Rents Hotels and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947 s. 51(1)(ii)] An exceptional or advantage; an exemption from some duty, or attendance, to which certain persons are entitled, from a supposition

Normal

Normal [fr. norma, Lat., a rule or precept], opposed to exceptional; that state wherein any body most exactly comports in all its parts with the abstract idea thereof, and

Martial law

Crown to repel force by force in the case of insurrection, invasion or riot, and to take such exceptional measures as may be necessary for the purpose of restoring peace and order: Manual of Military Law, pp.

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