Highway Robbery - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Highway robbery. See (English) ROBBERY, and Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), ss. 40-43), in which, however, no distinction is drawn between highway and any other robbery....
Highway robbery
Robbery committed on the public roads...
robbery
robbery pl: -ber·ies [Anglo-French robberie roberie, from Old French, from rober to take something away from a person by force] : the unlawful taking away of personal property from a person by violence or by threat of violence that causes fear : larceny from the person or immediate presence of another by violence or threat of violence and with intent to steal aggravated robbery : robbery committed with aggravating factors (as use of a weapon, infliction of bodily injury, or use of an accomplice) armed robbery : robbery committed by a person armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon simple robbery : robbery that does not involve any aggravating factors ...
Brigandage
Life and practice of brigands highway robbery plunder...
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Highway
Highway, means a National Highway declared as such under s. 2 of the National Highway Act, 1956 (48 of 1956) and includes any Expressway or Express Highway vested in the Central Government, whether surfaced or unsurfaced, and also includes:(i) all lands appurtenant to the Highway, whether demarcated or not, acquired for the purpose of the Highway or transferred for such purpose by the State Government to the Central Government;(ii) all bridges, culverts, tunnels, causeways, carriageways and other structures constructed on or across such Highway; and(iii) all trees, railings, fences, posts, paths, signs, signals, kilometre stone and other Highway accessories and materials on such Highways. [Control of National Highways (Land and Traffic) Act, 2002 (13 of 2003), s. 2(e)]1. Broadly, any main route on land, on water, or in air2. Jain Public road connecting towns or cities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 734....
Robbery
Robbery, In all robbery there is either theft or extortion (Penal Code, 1860, s. 390)The unlawful and forcible taking from the person of another, of goods or money to any value, by violence or putting him in fear. See Larceny Act, 1916, ss. 23 and 37, and the Garrotters Act, 1863, by which robbery with violence is felony punishable by penal servitude and whipping, if the offender be a male....
aggravated robbery
aggravated robbery see robbery ...
armed robbery
armed robbery see robbery ...
simple robbery
simple robbery see robbery ...
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