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privilege
privilege [Latin privilegium law affecting a specific person, special right, from privus private + leg- lex law] 1 : a right, license, or exemption from duty or liability granted as a special benefit, advantage, or favor: as a : an exemption from liability where an action is deemed to be justifiable (as in the case of self-defense) or because of the requirements of a position or office ;also : the affirmative defense that an action is privileged compare excuse absolute privilege : a privilege that exempts a person from liability esp. for defamation regardless of intent or motive ;specif : a privilege that exempts high public officials (as legislators) from liability for statements made while acting in their official capacity without regard to intent or malice qualified privilege : a privilege esp. in the law of defamation that may be defeated esp. by a showing of actual malice called also conditional privilege b : an exemption from a requirement to disclose information (as fo...
Privilege
Privilege, a privilege is the opposite of a duty, and the correlative of 'no-right', Isha Valimohamad v. Haji Gulam Mohamad and Haji Dada Trust, AIR 1974 SC 2061 (2065): (1974) 2 SCC 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 of law, that the stations they fill or the offices they are engaged in, are such as require all their care; and that, therefore, without this indulgence, it would be impracticable to execute such offices so advantageously as the public good requires.The separate privileges of either House of Parlia-ment are extensive, but they are at the same time uncertain and indefinite. Amongst those privileges are, the power of committing persons to prison; the power of publishing matters which, if not issuing from such high authority, might become the subject of proceedings in a Court of la...
Suspension
Suspension, means, 'action of debarring or state of being debarred, especially, for a time, from a function or privilege; temporary deprivation of one's office or position, or again, state of being temporarily kept from doing or deprived of something. Dictionary meaning of expression 'suspend' is to debar, usually for a time, from any privilege from the execution of an office or from the enjoyment of such a position or status and resultant benefit of the office and its privileges. The object of suspension is to remove any person holding the elected office or public office temporarily from his sphere of enjoyment of status, position, power and privilege, Nasir Khan Nivas Khan Pathan v. Dist. Devpt. Officer, Bharuch (FB), AIR 2002 Guj 143.Suspension, to equate it to a reduction in rank. One of the meanings of the word is; 'to deter' to debar from any privilege, office emolument, etc., for a time. It is clear that a suspension is a temporary act and cannot amount to a reduction in rank, T...
Palace
Palace. A palace, which is a royal residence, is privileged from the execution of legal process within its precints; but the privilege does not, it seems, extend to a royal palace, e.g., Hampton Court, which is not a royal residence: see A.-G.v. Dakin, (1869-70) LR 4 HL 338, where there was a remarkable difference of opinion amongst the judges, Combe v. De la Bere, (1881) 22 Ch D 316....
Organised crime
Organised crime, in Europe, the terms 'organised crime' and 'professional crime' are largely inter-changeable. As compared to American standards, the European criminal orgainsations are small-scale and short-lived. Such crimes are defined as involving system of specifically defined relation-ship with mutual obligation and privileges and association of a small group of criminals for the execution of the intended crime. The eruption of organised crime in India is of recent origin and is at the initial stage. It is the need of the hour to control such criminal activities which tempt the persons involved to amass huge profit. Such crimes have not only a legal facet but have a social and economic aspect which is required to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.Means any continuing unlawful activity...
Ambassador
Ambassador [legatus, Lat.], a representative minister sent by one sovereign power to another, with authority conferred on him by letters of credence to treat on affairs of state, 4 Inst. 153. Ambassadors are either ordinary, who reside in the place whither they are sent; or extraordinary, who are employed upon special matters. An ambassador during the period of his residence here is entirely exempt from the jurisdiction of the courts of this country, Magdalena Steam Navigation Co. v. Martin, (1859) 2 E&E 94; Musurus Bey v. Godban, 1894 (2) QB 352). Ambassadors and their domestic servants are protected from civil arrest and their goods from seizure under distress or execution by the (English) Diplomatic Privileges Act, 1708 (7 Anne, c. 12), which is declaratory of the Common Law, but imposes severe penalties, including corporal punishment, on persons violating its provisions. The King can veto the appointment of an ambassador, and this constitutional right was last exercised by William ...
Soc, Sok, Soka
Soc, Sok, Soka, jurisdiction; a power or privilege to administer justice and execute laws; also a shire, circuit, or territory, See Merttens v. Hill, (1901) 1 Ch 842. See SOKE....
Tools
Tools, the term tools cannot be restricted to simple implements used by artisans for purpose of their trade, AIR 1962 Mad 444 (446).As to their privilege from distress, see DISTRESS. In bankruptcy, Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 38, and as to execution upon tools of trade of small value, see Small Debts Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 127), s. 8....
Power
Power, in respect of court the word 'power' means an authority expressly or impliedly conferred on the court by law to do that which without that sanction it could not have done, consent cannot give jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, is an authority reserved by, or limited to, a person to dispone, either wholly or partially, of movable or immovable property, either for his own benefit or for that of others. The word is used as a technical term and is distinct from the dominion which a man has over his own estate by virtue of ownership, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary.Power, is not synonymous with jurisdiction, K.E. v. Vithu, (1899) 1 Bom LR 157.Power, may be general or implied. The general powers are such as the donee can exercise in favour of such person or persons as he pleases, including himself, Mahadeo Ramchandra v. Damodar Vishwanath, AIR 1957 Bom 218.Means any form of energy which is not generated by human or animal agency. [The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act...
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