Forcible - Law Dictionary Search Results
Dispossessed
Even where a person has a right to possession but taking the law into his hands make' a forcible entry otherwise than in due course of law, it would be a case of both forcible and wrongful
Trespass
any legal wrong for which the appropriate remedy was a writ of trespass - viz. any direct and forcible injury to person, land, or chattels, (3) the third and narrowest meaning of the term is that in
Rape
Rape, extends also to the forcible sexual intercourse by a woman with a man, as well as the offence of rape as defined in
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Violent profits
Violent profits. Mesne profits in Scotland. 'They are so called because due on the tenant's forcible or unwarrantable detaining the possession after he ought to have removed.'-Erskine 2, 6, 54; and Bell's Scots Law
Robbery
Robbery, In all robbery there is either theft or extortion (Penal Code, 1860, s. 390) The unlawful and forcible taking from the person of another, of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him
Restraints of princes
Rulers or People', being one of the group of contingencies against which provision is made. It covers any forcible interference with the voyage or adventure at the hands of the constituted government or ruling power of any
Rapina
the History and System of Roman Private Law 419 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3rd Edn., 1907. Means the forcible taking of another movable property with the intent to appropriate it to one's own use. Black's Law Dictionary,
Prisoner
is confined in a prison. As to legal aid for a prisoner, see POOR, and as to the forcible feeding of a prisoner, see Leigh v. Gladstone, (1909) 26 TLR 139. As to the temporary discharge of
Possession is nine points of the law
183, Sir Edward Fry, speaking of the statute 5 Rich. 2, stat. 1, c. 8, which makes a forcible entry an indictable offence, says: 'This statute creates one of the great differences which exist in our law
Abduction
Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:- (a) Where any person from motives of lucre
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