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Proverb

An old and common saying a phrase which is often repeated especially a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth or the result of experience and observation a maxim a saw an adage

Kidnaper

One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being a manstealer

Abatement

of the reversioner or remainder man: and disseisin differs from them both, for to disseise is to put forcibly or fraudulently a person seised of the freehold out of possession, Co. Litt. 277a. (2) Abatement of Nuisances.-A

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Cultivatory possession

Cultivatory possession, a trespasser who has no right to be in possession by merely entering upon the land forcibly or surreptitiously cannot he said to be a person in 'Cultivatory possession', Sonavati v. Ram, AIR 1968 SC

Decoy

Decoy [probably fr. kooy, Dut., a cage], a place made for catching wild water-fowl. As to the rights of an owner of such a place, see Carrington v. Taylor, (1809) 11 East 571; 11 Mod 74,...

Defence

belongs to every person. If a man, or one standing in any of these relations to him, be forcibly attacked in his person or property, it is lawful for him to repel force by force: and the

Grab

'grab' has a broad meaning to take unauthorisedly, greedily or unfairly - and a narrow meaning of snatching forcibly or violently or by unscrupulous means, Konda Lakshmana Bapuji v. Government of Andra Pradesh, AIR 2002 SC 1012

Impressment

Impressment, means (1) The act of forcibly taking for public service. (2) A court's imposition of a constructive trust on equitable grounds. (3) Archaic. The

Lawful possession

equated with a temporary right to enforce recovery of the property in case a person is wrongfully or forcibly dispossessed from it. Juridical possession is possession protected by law against wrongful dispossession but cannot perse always be

Lawful, Legal

provision in Specific Relief Act empowering a person or tenant to recover possession if he has been evicted forcibly by the landlord, may be juridical and not lawful or a tenant holding over is not in lawful

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