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Act of State

of State for India, 6 Bom LR 131; Virendra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, 1955 SCR 415. The arrest of an alien enemy under Defence (General) Regulations, 1939 is not an act of State, Hirsch v.'Somervell, 62

A fortiori

his special duty), who is present at the commission of a felony, is bound by the law to arrest the felon, on pain of fine and imprisonment.

Sergeant

officer whose duty was to attend on the king and on the lord high steward in court to arrest traitors and other offenders He is now called sergeant at arms and two of these officers by allowance

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Recaption

The act of retaking as of one who has escaped after arrest reprisal the retaking of ones own goods chattels wife or children without force or violence from one who

Lockup

A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up a watchhouse a jail

Hysterogenic

the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria

Fainting

Syncope or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain the face becoming pallid the respiration feeble and the heats beat

Capias

or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it that is to arrest him also called writ of capias

summons

a court to answer a minor criminal charge and that is issued in lieu of a warrant for arrest by an authorized judicial officer (as a magistrate) upon request of a prosecuting attorney c : a notification

Bail

Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), s. 23, particularly enumerates (being perjury, obtaining property under false pretences, and other misdemeanours, the costs of prosecuting which are allowed out of the county rate); and as … Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken for his appearance on a day and at a place certain, which

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