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false light : an untrue or misleading portrayal [unreasonably placed their family in a false light before the public "Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co., 419 U.S. 245 (1974)"] ;also : an invasion of privacy tort that is based on injury to the victim's reputation by such a portrayal (as in a publication) compare defamation, libel, slander NOTE: The false light cause of action is not recognized in all jurisdictions. Where it is recognized, the misrepresentation creating the false light does not need to be defamatory, but it must be offensive or objectionable to a reasonable person and made with knowledge of its inaccuracy. ...
False lights
False lights. S. 667 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 667, imposes a penalty upon any person who after receiving notice fails to extinguish or screen any fire or light that may be mistaken for a lighthouse. See FALSE SIGNAL.In an invasion-of-privacy action a plaintiff's allegation that the defendant attributed to the plaintiff views that he or she does not hold and placed the plaintiff before the public in a highly offensive and untrue manner, Black's Law Dic-tionary, 7th Edn., p. 619....
False signal, or lights
False signal, or lights, exhibited with intent to bring ships into danger is a felony punishable with penal servitude for life by the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), s. 47. See FALSE LIGHTS....
Lighthouse
Lighthouse, a building, from which lights are shown to guide ships at sea. The power of erecting and maintaining them is a branch of the royal prerogative. By the (English) Harbours, Docks and Piers Clause, etc. Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), lighthouses are not to be erected without the sanction of Trinity House. The management of lighthouses is now regulated by the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), Part, XI., ss. 634-675, as amended by the (English) Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 44), which creates a General Lighthouse Fund in substitution for the Mercantile Marine Fund, and, subject to the rights of persons having authority over local lighthouses, is vested in the following bodies:-(1) As to lighthouses in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Sark, and Alderney, and the adjacent seas and islands, and in Gibraltar, in the Trinity House.(2) In Scotland and the adjacent seas and islands, and in the Isle of Man, in the Co...
defamation
defamation 1 : communication to third parties of false statements about a person that injure the reputation of or deter others from associating with that person see also libel, slander New York Times Co. v. Sullivan in the Important Cases section compare disparagement, false light, slander of title 2 : a defamatory communication [every repetition of the is a publication "W. L. Prosser and W. P. Keeton"] ...
False pretence, obtaining property
False pretence, obtaining property, this offence, though allied to larceny, is distinguishable from it, as being perpetrated through the medium of a mere fraud; it is a misdemeanour at Common Law. By the Larceny Act, 1916, s. 32:-Every person who, by any false pretence:(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from any other person any chattel, money or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person fradulently causes or induces any other person:(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or(b) to write, impress or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any corporate body or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt wi...
Fabricating false evidence
Fabricating false evidence, S. 192 (of IPC) defines compendiously the offence of fabricating false evidence. It reads thus:'Whoever causes any circumstances to exist... or makes any document containing a false statement intending that such circumstance..... or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding..... and that such circumstance......... or false statement, so appearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an erroneous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding, is said to fabricate false evidence, Dr. S. Dutt v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 523 (527): (1966) 1 SCR 493.Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or makes any false entry in any book or record, (or electronic record) or makes any document (or electronic record) containing a false statement, intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evidence in a judicial proceeding,...
Falsely charges
Falsely charges, The expression 'falsely charges' in this section, cannot mean giving false evidence as a prosecution witness against an accused person during the course of a criminal trail. 'To falsely charge' must refer to the criminal or initial accusation putting or seeking to put in motion the machinery of criminal investigation and not when seeking to prove the false charge by making deposition in support of the charge framed in that trial. The words 'falsely charges' have to be read along with the expression 'institution of criminal proceeding'. Both these expressions, being susceptible of analogous meaning should be understood to have been used in their content sense. They get as it were their colour and content from each other. They seems to have been used in a technical sense as commonly understood in our criminal law. The false charge must, therefore be made initially to a person in authority or to someone who is in a position to get offender punished by appropriate proceedi...
invasion of privacy
invasion of privacy :the tort of unjustifiably intruding upon another's right to privacy by appropriating his or her name or likeness, by unreasonably interfering with his or her seclusion, by publicizing information about his or her private affairs that a reasonable person would find objectionable and in which there is no legitimate public interest, or by publicizing information that unreasonably places him or her in a false light see also privacy compare right of privacy, zone of privacy ...
slander
slander : to utter slander against slan·der·er n n [Anglo-French esclandre, from Old French escandle esclandre scandal, from Late Latin scandalum moral stumbling block, disgrace, from Greek skandalon, literally, snare, trap] 1 : defamation of a person by unprivileged oral communication made to a third party ;also : defamatory oral statements 2 : the tort of oral defamation [sued his former employer for ] compare defamation, false light, libel NOTE: An action for slander may be brought without alleging and proving special damages if the statements in question have a plainly harmful character, as by imputing to the plaintiff criminal guilt, serious sexual misconduct, or conduct or a characteristic affecting his or her business or profession. slan·der·ous [slan-də-rəs] adj slan·der·ous·ly adv slan·der·ous·ness n ...
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