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Deprivation

in the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross immorality, and the like, or for farming or trading contrary to law, after two former convictions for the same

turpis causa

turpis causa [Latin, immoral reason] : a cause or consideration that is base or immoral and therefore not sufficient to support a

Brothel

Brothel [fr. bordel, Fr.], a habitation of prostitutes. To keep one is an offence at Common Law, the prosecution of which by indictment is specially encouraged by the (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2,...

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Obscene

the novel, whereas obscenity has the tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, Samaresh Bose v. Amal Mitra, AIR 1986 SC 967 (983): (1985) 4 SCC 289: (1985) Supp (3)

Fairs

preamble that 'certain of the fairs held in England and Wales are unnecessary, are the cause of grievous immorality, and are very injurious to the inhabitants of the town in which such fairs are held,' gives power

Girl

Girl, S. 2(b) of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 defines 'girl' to mean a female who has not completed the

Income

from (a) his property, or (b) his investment. A receipt from windfall, or gains of graft, crime or immoral secretions by persons prima facie would not be receipt from the 'known sources of income' of a public

Keeping a brothel

so keeping it, Krishnamurthy v. Public Prosecutor, (1967) 1 SCR 586: AIR 1967 SC 567 (568). [Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, (104 of 1956), s. 3(1)]

Libel

injured by it.' The term also legally includes such writings as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or immoral kind. As to the averment in an indictment for obscene libel, see R. v. Barraclough, (1906) 1 KB

Major

Major, means a person who has completed the age of eighteen years. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2(a)]

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