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Scripture

the Old and New Testaments. See Articles of Religion. Art. VI. All profane scoffing of theHoly Scripture, or exposing any part theeof to contempt and ridicule, is punishable by fine and imprisonment (Roscoe on Criminal Evidence, 8th … Evidence, 8th Edn. p. 666); and by 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32, a conviction of a person educated in the Christian religion of having by writing or advised speaking denied the Divine authority of Scripture

Letters patent

patentes.' The letters patent are so called because 'they are open letters; they are not sealed up, but exposed to view, with the great seal pendant at the bottom; and are usually directed or addressed by the … differ from certain other letter of the king, sealed also with the great seal, but directed to particular persons, and for particular purposes, which therefore, not being proper for public inspection, are closed up and sealed on

Salary or wages

and whether by whole sale or retail, and includes an agreement for sale, an offer for sale, the exposing for sale or having in possession for sale of any insecticide and includes also an attempt to sell … of the property. Delivery of tangible immovable property takes place when the seller place the buyer, or such person as he directs, in possession of the property, Pyare Lal v. Emperor, AIR 1945 All 135: (1945) ILR

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Marine adventure

maritime perils; (iii) any liability to a third party may be incurred by the owner of, or other person interested in or responsible for, insurable property by reason of maritime perils. [Marine Insurance Act, 1963 (11 of … Marine adventure, includes any adventure where-(i) any insurable property is exposed to maritime perils; (ii) the earnings or acquisition of any freight, passage money, commission, profit or other pecuniary

Injunction

diversion of streams from mills, the back flowage on mills, pulling down of the banks of rivers and exposing adjacent lands to inundation, or neighbouring mills to destruction, etc. The piracy of a copyright, or the invasion … [Specific Relief Act, 1963, s. 41(b)] This is the discretionary process of preventive and remedial justice, whereby a person is required to refrain from doing a specified meditated wrong, not amounting to a crime. It is either

Blasphemy

Providence, or by contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Also, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law, see Reg. v. Ramsay & … cumulative upon the common law, R. v. Carlile, (1819) 3 B. & Ald. 167, very severely punishes any person 'who shall by writing printing teaching or advised speaking, deny the Christian religion to be true, or the

Defamatory statement

Defamatory statement, is a statement which tends to lower a person in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally or to cause him to be shunned or … of right thinking members of society generally or to cause him to be shunned or avoided or to expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or to disparage him in his office, profession, calling, trade or business,

funeral home

may not be preserved by embalming before viewing or burial and in some cases the body is not exposed for viewing though present in a casket Often some form of memorial service is held for the deceased … An establishment usually commercial where the bodies of dead persons are prepared for viewing before burial or cremation called also funeral parlor mortuary funeral chapel and informally undertakers

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea.

that he is innocent. See Blaker v. Tillstone, 1894 (1) QB 345, where the defendant was charged with exposing unwholesome meat. In cases under the (English) Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, 50 & 51 Vict. c. 28, s. … legislation in regard to the health or security of the public is to attach the offence to the person who possesses, at least hypothetically, some control over the acts constituting the offence and to impose penalties on

Pawn or Pledge

use it. (5) if the use will be without any injury, and yet the pawn will thereby be exposed to extraordinary perils, there the use is impliedly interdicted. The pawnee is liable for ordinary neglect in keeping … relinquished, the right of the pledgee is extinguished or waived. But, in the case of a mortgage of personal property the right of property passes by the conveyance to the mortgagee, and the possession is not or

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