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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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