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fighting words : words which by their very utterance are likely to inflict harm on or provoke a breach of the peace by the average person to whom they are directed NOTE: Fighting words are not protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...
Challenges to fight
Challenges to fight, either by word or letter, or to the bearer of such challenges, are misdemeanours, punishable by fine and imprisonment. See DUEL....
Fight
Fight. See CHALLENGES TO FIGHT.A fight is a combat between two and more persons whether with or without weapons. It is not possible to enunciate any general rule as to what shall be deemed to be a sudden quarrel. It is a question of fact and whether a quarrel is sudden or not must necessarily depend upon the proved facts of each case, Dhirajbhai Gorakhbhai Nayak v. State of Gujarat, (2003) 9 SCC 322 (327). (Penal Code, 1860, s. 300 Exception 4)A fight is a combat between two and more persons whether with or without weapons. It is not possible to enunciate any general rule as to what shall be deemed to be a sudden quarrel. It is a question of fact and whether a quarrel is sudden or not must necessarily depend upon the proved facts of each case. For the application of Exception 4, it is not sufficient to show that there was a sudden quarrel and there was no premeditation. It must further be shown that the offender has not taken undue advantage or acted in cruel or unusual manner, Ghapoo ...
Free fight
Free fight, A freefight is one where both sides mean to fight from the start, go out to fight and there is pitched battle. The question of who attacks and who defends in such event is wholly immaterial, Abdul Hamid v. State of Uttar Pradesh, (1991)1 SCC 339: AIR 1991 SC 339....
breach of the peace
breach of the peace 1 : a disturbance of public peace or order [insulting language causing a breach of the peace] see also fighting words 2 : the offense of causing a breach of the peace compare disorderly conduct ...
Cock-fighting
Cock-fighting, a criminal offence by s. 1(c) of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27)....
Sudden fight
Sudden fight, implies mutual provocation and blows on each side, Sandhya Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra, (2006) 4 SCC 653....
Purchase, Words of
Purchase, Words of, those by which, taken abso-lutely without reference to or connection with any other words, an estate first attaches, or its considered as commencing in point of title, in the person described by them. 'It is a rule in law, known as the rule in Shelley's case, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail, that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase' (1 Rep. 104 a; Van Grutten v. Foxwell, 1897, AC 658). The rule has been abolished in regard to all conveyances executed after 1925. In a limitation to an ancestor for life, then to his heir or any class of heirs or issue, the words heirs or issue are now words of purchase and not of limitation (Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 131). See HEIR, and SHELLEY'S CASE. At the same time, a grant to A. and his heirs may still be use...
word of limitation
word of limitation :a word in a deed or will esp. following the name of an intended grantee or devisee that serves to describe the nature or extent of the estate granted or devised usu. used in pl. [construed “and his heirs” in “to John and his heirs” as words of limitation describing an estate in fee simple rather than as words of purchase giving a future interest in the estate to his heirs] compare word of purchase ...
Meaning of words
Meaning of words, The rule is that when general words follow particular and specific words of the same nature, the general words must be confined to the things of the same kind as those specified, Kavalappara Kottarathil Kochuni v. States of Madras and Kerala, AIR 1960 SC 1080: (1960) 3 SCR 887...
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