Fresh Pursuit - Law Dictionary Search Results
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fresh pursuit 1 : the immediate and continuous pursuit by police officers of a suspect who is fleeing to avoid arrest that under common law and some state codes gives the officers the right to cross jurisdictional lines in order to make an arrest 2 : hot pursuit ...
Fresh suit, or Pursuit
Fresh suit, or Pursuit, such a present and earnest following a robber as never ceases from the time of the robbery until apprehension. The party thus pursuing had his goods restored to him, which otherwise were forfeited to the Crown, Staundf. Pl. Cor., lib. 3, cc. 10, 12.The right of a police officer to make a warrantors search of a fleeing suspect or to cross jurisdictional lines to arrest a fleeing suspect, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 677....
Escape
Escape [fr. echapper, Fr., to fly from], a violent or private evasion out of some lawful restraint; as where a man is arrested or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases.(1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and the sheriff is expressly discharged from any liability by s. 31 of the Prison Act, 1877, repealed and re-enacted by s. 16, sub-s. 2, and s. 39 of the (English) Sheriffs Act, 1887. Escapes are either voluntary, by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can take his prisoner again (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time), but the sheriff had to answer for the debt, and he had no remedy over against the person escaping; or, negligent, where a prisoner escapes without his keeper's knowledge or consent, and then upon fresh pursuit the defendant may be retaken, even on a Sunday, and the sheriff was excused, if he had him again, before ...
hot pursuit
hot pursuit : the immediate and continuous pursuit by police officers of a fleeing suspect whose possible escape justifies the failure of the officers to obtain a warrant before making an entry, search, seizure, or arrest ...
Pursuit
The act of following or going after esp a following with haste either for sport or in hostility chase prosecution as the pursuit of game the pursuit of an enemy...
Fresh fact
Fresh fact, There may be facts which are not germane or are not relevant to the grounds justifying the detention and when s. 14 of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act, 1971 refers to fresh facts it does not refer to facts which are not relevant, but to such fresh facts on which the detaining authority is satisfied that an order of detention should be made. If the fresh facts cannot form the basis for a conclusion on which the detention order can be made, then those facts are not fresh facts which will justify the detaining authority to make an order of detention, Har Jas Dev Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1973 SC 2469: (1973) 2 SCC 575: (1974) 1 SCR 281....
Freshly
In a fresh manner vigorously newly recently brightly briskly coolly as freshly gathered freshly painted the wind blows freshly...
fresh complaint rule
fresh complaint rule : a rule of evidence: the testimony of a witness to whom a victim of a sexual offense made a fresh complaint is admissible to corroborate the victim's testimony called also fresh complaint doctrine ...
Fresh water
Of pertaining to or living in water which is not salty as fresh water geological deposits a fresh water fish fresh water mussels...
Fresh application
Fresh application, an application made after 12 years from the date of the decree would be a fresh application within the meaning of s. 48 of the Code of Civil Procedure, if the previous application was finally disposed of. It would also be a fresh application if it asked for a relief parties or properties different from those proceeded against in the previous execution petition or asked for a relief substantially different from that asked for in the earlier petition, Pentapati China Venkanna v. Pentapati Bangaraju, AIR 1964 SC 1454 (1458). (Civil PC, 1908, s. 48)...
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