Expulsion - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Expulsion, is the turning out the legal proprietor of an estate in reality before the termination of the estate, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 57.Is forcing out, Webster American Dictionary, p. 410.In U.K., the House of Commons has the power to expel a member for (a) being in open rebellion, (b) being guilty of forgery, perjury, of frauds and breaches of trusts of misappropriation of public money, of conspiracy to defraud, of fraudulent conversion of property, of corruption in the administration of Justice or in public offices or in the execution of their duties as members of the House, of conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 2001, p. 141.The House of Lords has the right, although absolute, to disqualify a peer from sitting in the House by its sentence when the offender has been tried and found guilty on impeachment. Such disqualifica-tion may be permanent or temporary and is removable ...
Abortion
Abortion, a miscarriage, or the premature expulsion of the contents of the womb before the term of gestation is completed.By the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. C. 100), s. 58, the unlawful administration of drugs or unlawful use of instruments, by a pregnant woman to herself, or (whether she be with child or not) by any person to her, with intent to procure miscarriage, is made felony, punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. A person charged under this s. may be convicted under the (English) Infant Life (Preservation) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo 5, c. 34). By s. 59 of the Act of 1861, the unlawful procuring of drug or instrument with the intent that it may be used to procure miscarriage is a misdemeanour whether the woman be with child or not. Earlier Acts (see, e.g., 43 Geo. 3, c. 59) made the offence a capital felony, but applied only in case of the woman being quick with child. A woman can be convicted of conspiracy t...
Live-birth
Live-birth, means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such expulsion or extraction, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, and each product of such birth is considered live-born. [Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, s. (d)]...
Miscarriage
Miscarriage, a failure of justice. See 29 Car. 2, c. 3, s. 4. See also ABORTION.It means expulsion of the contents of a pregnant uterus at any period prior to or during the twenty-sixth week of pregnancy but does not include any miscarriage, the causing of which is punishable under the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). [Maternity Benefit Act, 1961 (53 of 1961), s. 3 (j)]--means the expulsion of the product of conception before the 28th week of conception, Mahendra v. Sushila, AIR 1965 SC 364 (391)....
abort
abort : to induce the expulsion of (a human fetus) ...
abortion
abortion 1 : the termination of a pregnancy after, accompanied by, or closely followed by the death of the embryo or fetus ;esp : the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human fetus to terminate a pregnancy 2 : the crime of procuring or performing an illegal abortion [a conspiracy to commit "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] see also Roe v. Wade and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services in the Important Cases section ...
eviction
eviction : the dispossession of a tenant of leased property by force or esp. by legal process actual eviction : eviction that involves the physical expulsion of a tenant constructive eviction : eviction effected by substantially interfering with a tenant's enjoyment of the property (as by allowing the property to become uninhabitable) so that the tenant is regarded as evicted under law re·tal·ia·to·ry eviction : wrongful eviction of a tenant in reaction to the tenant's exercising of a right (as of reporting health code violations) contrary to the landlord's interest ...
Bannition
The act of expulsion...
Depopulate
To deprive of inhabitants whether by death or by expulsion to reduce greatly the populousness of to dispeople to unpeople...
Ecbolic
A drug as ergot which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus...
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