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Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884 (English)
Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884 (English) (47 & 48 Vict. c. 64), consolidating and amending thelaw as to the detention, custody, and discharge of criminal lunatics, the principal amendment being that effected bys. 10, which transfers the expense
detention
detention 1 : the act or fact of detaining or holding back ;esp : a holding in custody 2
Police Custody
Police Custody, commences when a police officer arrests a person by actually touching or confining his body, or when the accused submits to the custody by
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Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement
Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement, the cause of action in wrongful detention is based on a wrongful withholding or to
habeas corpus
issued upon a petition challenging the lawfulness of restraining a person who is imprisoned or otherwise in another's custody called also the Great Writ NOTE: Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is an extraordinary remedy, and is by far
Habeas corpus testificandum
you have the body to testify), a writ to bring a witness into Court, when he is in custody at the time of a trial. A Secretary of State or a judge of the High Court or
Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners
of the Cr.P.C. enables the Court to commit the convicted person who is awarded capital punishment to jail custody under a warrant. It is implicit in the warrant that the prisoner is neither awarded simple nor rigorous
writ of habeas corpus
the legality of a restraint on a person's liberty, usually imprisonment. The writ commands the officials who have custody of a prisoner to bring the prisoner before the court, so that the court may determine whether the
detainer
Latin detinere] 1 : the act of keeping something in one's possession ;specif : unlawful detainer 2 : detention in custody 3 : a notification sent by a prosecutor, judge, or other official advising a prison official
May be detained
the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 1, page 531, the word 'detain' means 'to keep in confinement or custody'. Webster's Comprehensive Dictionary, International Edition, at page 349, gives the meaning as to hold in custody, Poonam Lata
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