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Imprisonment, 'imprisonment' shall mean imprisonment of either description as defined in theIndian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)]The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It extends in law to confinement not only in a gaol, but in a house, or stocks, or to hold-ing a man in the street, etc.; for in all these cases the person so restrained is said to be a prisoner, so long as he has not his liberty freely to go about his business as at other times, Co. Litt. 253. See FALSE IMPRISONMENT.Imprisonment for Crime.--Any common law mis-demeanour is punishable after conviction on indictment by fine or imprisonment or both, at the discretion of the court. Imprisonment for not more than two years is very frequently authorised, as an alternative to penal servitude, by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and other Acts set out in Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law.' As to the right of any person convicted by a Court of Summ...
Imprisonment for life
Imprisonment for life, S. 428, Cr PC, 1973, does not apply to those convicted for 'imprisonment for life'. It is applicable only in case of accused persons who have, on conviction, been sentenced to imprison-ment for a term and the Penal Code as well as the Criminal Procedure Code make and maintain a clear distinction between 'imprisonment for a term' and 'imprisonment for life' in that the former means imprisonment for a definite or fixed period while the latter means imprisonment for the remainder of the natural life of the convict. The periods of life term mentioned in s. 57, IPC or the remission rules contained in Jail Manual (e.g. Para 516B of Punjab/Haryana Jail Manual) are irrele-vant in this context, Kartar Singh v. State of Haryana, AIR 1982 SC 1439: (1982) 3 SCC 1: (1983) 1 SCR 445.The expression 'imprisonment for life' must be read in the context of s. 45, IPC. So read in it would ordinarily mean imprisonment for the full or complete span of life, Ashok Kumar v. Union of Ind...
Imprisonment for life and Imprisonment for a term
Imprisonment for life and Imprisonment for a term, there is a clear distinction between imprison-ment for life and imprisonment for a term, in fact, the two expressions imprisonment for life, and 'imprisonment for a term' have been used in contradistinction with each other, in one and the same section, where the former, must mean imprisonment, for the remainder of the natural life of the convict (vide: definition of 'life' in s. 45, I.P.C.) and the latter must mean imprisonment for a definite or fixed period, Kartar Singh v. State of Haryana, (1982) 3 SCC 1: AIR 1982 SC 1439. (Cr PC, 1973, s. 428; Indian Penal Code, s. 57)...
Imprison ment
The act of imprisoning or the state of being imprisoned confinement restraint...
imprison
imprison : to confine in prison esp. as punishment for a crime compare false imprisonment im·pris·on·ment n ...
The sentence imposed
The sentence imposed, is a sentence of imprison-ment or detention and therefore the requirement for a statement showing to what extent the sentence has not been carried out must also relate to a sentence of imprisonment or detention. [United States of America (Extradition) Order 1976 (SI 1976/2144), Sch. I, arts III (4), VII(4)]...
Habeas corpora juratorum
Habeas corpora juratorum, Law Latin (that you have the bodies of the jurors), a process which issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and Exchequer for the same purpose. Abolished by C.L.O. Act, 1852, s. 104.Is a writ or order requiring that a prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time and place to decide the legality of his detention or imprison-ment, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.Commands the Judge of the inferior court to produce the body of the defendant with a statement of the cause of his detention, to do and to receive what-ever the higher court shall decree, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 500.Is a high prerogative writ of English Common Law, Habeas Corpus Act of 1979 and 1816 are basis of security for the enjoyment of personal freedom, Webster American Dictionary, p. 856.In India every High Court is empowered to issue the prerogative writ...
ment
A suffix denoting that which does a thing an act or process the result of an act or process state or condition as aliment that which nourishes ornament increment fragment piece broken segment abridgment act of abridging imprisonment movement adjournment amazement state of being amazed astonishment...
Adulteration
Adulteration, the corrupt production of any article, especially food: indictable at common law, see R. v. Dixon, (1814) 3 M&S 11. The adulteration of bread, corn, meal, or flour is made a statutory offence by the Bread Act, 1836, and the (English) Bread Acts (Amendment) Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 28), and that of food, including drink, generally by the (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31).By the act the mixing, colouring, staining or powdering of any article so as to render it injurious to health, as to affect injuriously the quality of the drugs or lettering any article in such estate, in punishable for a first offence by a fine not exceeding 50l.; for a second offence by imprison-ment not exceeding six months. The sale to the prejudice of the purchaser of articles of food and drugs not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser, is prohibited. Where however, the article is properly labelled as mixed, no liability arises. Prov...
Criminal cause or matter
Criminal cause or matter, if the cause or matter is one which, if carried to its conclusion, might result in the conviction or the person charged and in a sentence of some punishment, such as imprison-ment or fine, it is a 'criminal cause or matter', A (Ara) v. Chief Constable of Merseyside Police, (2004) 1 WLR 1697 (CA)....
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