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Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappu Nawabkhan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act, 1985, s. 2(c)]The word 'habitually'connotes some degree of fre-quency and continuity. It requires a continuance and permanence of some tendency, something that has developed into a propensity, that is, present from day-to-day, Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, Fourth Edn., Vol. 2, p. 1204, Vijay Narain Singh v. State of Bihar, AIR 1984 SC 1334 (1338): (1984) 3 SCC 14: (1984) 3 SCR 435.Means 'usually' and 'generally', Mustakmiya Jabbar-miya Shaikh v. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police, (1995) 3 SCC 237.Would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing ...
Habitual
Habitual, means repeated several times. Management of Monghyr Factory of I.T.C. Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1978 SC 1428 (1434): (1978) 3 SCC 504: (1978) 3 SCR 1044.The expression 'habitual' would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing together similar repeated acts. An isolated default of rent would not mean that tenant was a habitual defaulter, Vijay Amba Das Diware v. Balkrishna Wamon Dande, AIR 2000 SC 1414 (1416): (2000) 4 SCC 126. (Rent Control and Eviction)A habitual offender or a person habitually addicted to crime is one who is a criminal by habit or by disposition formed by repetition of crimes, Dhanji Ram Sharma v. Supt. of Police, AIR 1966 SC 1766 (1767). [Punjab Police Rules, 1934, R. 23.4 (3) (b)]Means constant customary, addicted to a specified habit. In other word it would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing together similar repeated acts, Advanced Law Lexicon, 3rd Edn. by P. Ramanatha Aiy...
Habitual Residence
Habitual Residence, is an expression used in a variety of statutes for a variety of purposes and could have a different meaning according to the statutory content; furthermore, a person might be habitually resident in more than one place at a time, or might have no habitual residence at all. It is common ground that habitual residence and ordinary residence are interchangeable concepts. Domicile, on the other hand, is a concept of the common law (although the same word is some-times used in civilian systems to denote something more like habitual residence, Mark v. Mark, (2003) 3 WLR 111 UKHL; Ikimi v. Ikimi, (2002) Fam 72 [See (English) Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act, 1973, s. 5(2)], Collins v. Secretary of State for Work and Pension, (2006) 1 WLR 2391 CA...
Habitual criminal
Habitual criminal, A person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be a continuity in the commission of those offences, Ayub Pappubhan Navab Khan Pathan v. S.N. Sinha, AIR 1990 SC 2069 (2071): (1990) 4 SCC 552. [Gujarat Prevention of Anti Social Activities Act (16 of 1985), s. 2(c)]. See PREVENTIVE DETENTION.A person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or persistently and prima facie there should be continuity in commission of those offences, R. Kalavathi v. State of Tamil Nadu, (2006) 6 SCC 14: (2006) 6 JT 69: (2006) 6 SCALE 385: (2006) 5 Supreme 116: (2006) 5 SLT 321: (2006) 6 SCJ 69: (2006) 7 SCJD 583: (2006) 8 SRJ 57: (2006) 3 SCC (Cri) 11: (2006) 3 Crimes 7 (SC): (2006) 2 JCC 1185: (2006) 3 Recent CR...
Habitual drunkard
Habitual drunkard. Defined by the (English) Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 19) (made perpetual by the Inebriates Act, 1888, and amended by the (English) Inebriates Acts, 1898 and 1899), which authorizes confinement in a retreat, upon the party's own application, as:-A person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is notwithstanding, by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself, and his or her affairs.See also (English) Licensing Act, 1902, s. 5 (extended to drug addicts by 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51, s. 3); Eaton v. Best, (1909) 1 KB 632; R. v. Briggs, ibid. 381; and DRUNKENNESS....
Habituation
The act of habituating or accustoming the state of being habituated...
Habitual defaulter
Habitual defaulter, tenant applying for fixation of fair rent but not paying even admitted rent during pendency of application can be original declared a habitual defaulter, Padmakar v. Madhukar, (1995) 2 SCC 537 (538)....
habitual
habitual 1 : practicing or acting in some manner by force of custom, habit, or addiction [a drunkard] 2 : being such a specified number of times or with designated regularity [ offenders] 3 : involved in the practice of a person's usual behavior [her residence] ...
habitual criminal
habitual criminal : one convicted of a crime who has a certain number of prior convictions for offenses of a specified kind (as felonies) and is thereby under some statutes subject to an increased penalty (as life imprisonment) ...
habitual criminal law
habitual criminal law : a law that imposes greater penalties if a convicted defendant has previously been convicted of one or more crimes NOTE: Some such laws have been challenged on the ground of violating the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or on the ground of being an ex post facto law. ...
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