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Good behaviour, security for

Good behaviour, security for. The exercise of preventive justice, which consists in being bound with one or more sureties in a recognizance or obligation to the Crown, and taken in some Court, by some judicial officer; whereby the parties acknowledge themselves to be indebted to the Crown in the sum required, with the condition to be void if the party shall be of good behaviour, either general or especially for the time therein limited. See (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 49), s. 25; see, further, (English) Probation of Offenders Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17); (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), ss. 26(2), 39(3); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.'Security for Convicted Drunkard.--The (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (Edw. 7, c. 28), enables a Court on conviction of a person for drunkenness in a public place, etc., to order him to enter into a recognizance, with or without sureties, to be of good behaviour....

Security for good behaviour or abearance

Security for good behaviour or abearance. See KEEPING THE PEACE....

good

good bet·ter best 1 : commercially sound or reliable [a risk] 2 a : valid or effectual under the law b : free of defects 3 a : characterized by honesty and fairness b : conforming to a standard of virtue [shall hold their offices during behavior "U.S. Constitution art. III"] ;also : characterized by or relating to good behavior n 1 : advancement of prosperity and well-being [for the of the community] 2 : an item of tangible movable personal property having value but usually excluding money, securities, and negotiable instruments usually used in pl. : as a pl : all things under section 2-105 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time of identification to the contract for sale other than the money that is to be paid, investment securities, and choses in action b pl : all things under section 9-104 of the Uniform Commercial Code that are movable at the time that a security interest in them attaches or that are fixtures but excluding money, documents,...

bond

bond 1 a : a usually formal written agreement by which a person undertakes to perform a certain act (as appear in court or fulfill the obligations of a contract) or abstain from performing an act (as committing a crime) with the condition that failure to perform or abstain will obligate the person or often a surety to pay a sum of money or will result in the forfeiture of money put up by the person or surety ;also : the money put up NOTE: The purpose of a bond is to provide an incentive for the fulfillment of an obligation. It also provides reassurance that the obligation will be fulfilled and that compensation is available if it is not fulfilled. In most cases a surety is involved, and the bond makes the surety responsible for the consequences of the obligated person's behavior. Some bonds, such as fidelity bonds, function as insurance agreements, in which the surety promises to pay for financial loss caused by the bad behavior of an obligated person or by some contingency over w...

order

order 1 : a state of peace, freedom from unruly behavior, and respect for law and proper authority [maintain law and ] 2 : an established mode or state of procedure [a call to ] 3 a : a mandate from a superior authority see also executive order b : a ruling or command made by a competent administrative authority ;specif : one resulting from administrative adjudication and subject to judicial review and enforcement [an administrative may not be inconsistent with the Constitution "Wells v. State, 654 So. 2d 145 (1995)"] c : an authoritative command issued by the court [violated a court and was jailed for contempt] cease-and-de·sist order [sēs-ənd-di-zist-, -sist-] : an order from a court or quasi-judicial tribunal to stop engaging in a particular activity or practice (as an unfair labor practice) compare injunction, mandamus, stay consent order : an agreement of litigating parties that by consent takes the form of a court order final order : an order of a court...

Judge

Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge but also every person who is empowered by law to give, in any legal proceeding, civil or criminal, definitive judgment, or a judgment which, if not appealed against, would be definitive, or a judgment which, is confirmed by some other authority, would be definitive or who is one of a body of persons which body of persons is em-powered by law to give such a judgement (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 19)To secure the dignity and political independence of the judges of the Supreme Court, it is enacted by s. 5 of the (English) Jud. Act, 1875 (replaced by Jud. Act, 1925, s. 12), repeating in effect a provision of the Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), that the judges of the Supreme Court (with the exception of the Lord Chancellor, who goes out with the Ministry) shall hold their o...

Peace, Breach of the

Peace, Breach of the, a violation of that quiet, peace, and security which is guaranteed by the laws for the personal comfort of the subjects of this kingdom. An ordinary subject of the Crown must act as a peace-officer to arrest an offender if a felony is committed, or a bad wound given in his presence; and an ordinary subject may arrest another who is on the point of committing murder, and may break and enter a house to do so; and may arrest a lunatic about to do a mischief, and may arrest one against whom an indictment has been found; or may arrest one to put a stop to a breach of the peace committed in his presence.The power of justices of the peace to adjudge a person to enter into recognizance and find sureties to keep the peace or be of good behaviour towards any other person on his complaint is regulated by s. 25 of the (English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'justices.'...

market

market 1 : the rate or price at which a security or commodity is currently selling : market price 2 a : a geographical area of demand for commodities or services [seeking new foreign s] b : a formal organized system enabling the transaction of business between buyers and sellers of commodities [a futures ] see also stock market c : a specified category of potential buyers [the youth ] 3 a : the course of commercial activity by which the exchange of commodities is accomplished [the is quiet] b : an opportunity for selling [developing new s] c : the available supply of or potential demand for specified goods or services [the labor ] [the for durable goods] d : the area of economic activity in which buyers and sellers come together and the forces of supply and demand affect prices [studying forces and behavior] ...

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