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Judgment
to ascertation whether there has been a determination of any right or liability, Shanti Kumar R. Canji v. Home Insurance Co. of New York, AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722): (1974) 2 SCC 387: (1975) 1 SCR 550.
Juvenile offenders
1933 (23 Geo. 5, c. 12). See s. 54 with regard to committal in custody in a remand home, and s. 57 with regard to sending to approved schools. With regard to the summary trial of children
Keeper of the Queen's prison
Keeper of the Queen's prison. This officer was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department during pleasure, Abolished 25 & 26 Vict. c. 104.
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Keeping house
Keeping house, confining oneself within the privacy of home to defeat creditors; an act of bankruptcy. See BANKRUPTCY.
Light
167. See PRESCRIPTION. The Prescription Act has not altered the previous law as to ancient lights, Colls v. Home and Colonial Stores, 1904 AC 179. And the right is to uninterrupted access of such light only as
Pardon
Commons. In modern times pardons have only been granted upon the advice of a Secretary of State. The Home Secretary in effect grants the pardon. As to consulting the Court of Criminal Appeal, see (English) Criminal Appeal
Lords Justices of Appeal
sitting as a Court of Appeal from a judge without a jury, see Powell v. Streatham Manor Nursing Home, 1935, AC 243; and from a judge with a jury, Mechanical and General Inventions Co. Ltd. v. Austin
Lunatic
detained during his Majesty's pleasure, as is also the case with a prisoner found guilty but insane. The Home Secretary may order insane prisoners to be removed from prison to asylums [(English) Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884, s.
Medsypp
Medsypp, a harvest supper or entertainment given to labourers at harvest-home.
Mentally ill prisoner
prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody, an order referred to in s. 27 has been made. [Mental
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