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commitment
may be committed to a mental hospital as a result of being found incompetent to stand trial, not guilty by reason of insanity, or incompetent to be sentenced. b : an act of referring a matter to … case of voluntary commitment, or by someone (as a family member or government agent) authorized by statute to petition for the patient's involuntary commitment. Some form of a hearing and periodic review is required in involuntary commitment
Quo warranto
made by an applicant in person, Re a Solicitor, (1903) 2 KB 205. If the defendant be adjudged guilty of an intrusion or usurpation, the Court may give judgment of ouster against him, fine him, and ordr … 71 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51)], substituted an election petition in the cases where an election is sought to be questioned on the ground of bribery, etc., disqualification,
Malice
inspired by anger. However, wrongheaded a prosecutor may be, if he honestly thinks that the accused has been guilty of a criminal offence he cannot be initiator of a malicious prosecution, Gopa v. Amarnath, AIR 1955 J&K … not necessarily imply premeditation, but it implies intention, which must necessarily precede the act intended. See Archbold, Crim. Pleading and Practice, sub tit. 'Homicide,' and MANSLAUGHTER. In the law of defamation the defence that the occasion was
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Desertion
not been regularly separated, or enters any foreign armed service except when authorized by the United States; is guilty of desertion Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C.A. 885. Virendra Kumar v. Chief of Army Staff, (1986) 2 … divorce it must exist for a period of at least three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or where the offence appears as a cross-charge, of the answer. Desertion as a ground of divorce differs
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