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Biological weapons

peaceful purposes and, (ii) weapons, equipment or delivery systems specially designated to case such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act,

Cartel-ship

Cartel-ship, a vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of two hostile powers; also a carry any particular proposal from one to another; for this reason the officer who commands

Cartulary

Cartel-ship, a vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of two hostile powers; also a carry any particular proposal from one to another; for this reason the officer who commands

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Civil defence

to any person, property, place or thing in India or any part of the territory thereof against any hostile attack, whether from air, land, sea or other places, or, for depriving any such attack of the whole

Coke, Sir Edward

committed to the Tower by Charles I., for his support of the Petition of right. Coke was bitterly hostile to the injunction of equity. The controversy between Coke and Lord Ellesmere, the Chancellor, was acute. James I.

Rencounter

Rencounter, a sudden meeting; as opposed to a duel, which is deliberate. A hostile meeting or contest; a battle or combat, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1298.

Crime of violence

of violence, is whether the has been the infliction or threat of force or the doing of a hostile act, R (August) v. Criminal Injuries Panel (CA), (2001) 2 WLR 1452. May be committed when there is

Cross-examination

allowed, as a question seemingly irrelevant often turns out otherwise. In the case of a witness proving himself hostile from interest or othrwise, the judge may allow the examination in chief to assume the form of cross-examination.

Declaration of war

on the 6th February, 1904, notified to Russia the rupture of negotiations and the cessation of diplomatic relations, hostile operations were commenced by Japan on the 8th February, and formal declarations of war were not made until

Discredit

Discredit, to show to be unworthy of credit. See CORSS-EXAMINATION and HOSTILE WITNESS.

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