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Badger sett

Badger sett, connotes a system of tunnels and chambers, constructed and currently used by a badger or badgers and the entrance holes to those tunnels and chambers, … does not include the area upto and including the surface area above that system, Director of Public Prosecutions v. Green, (2001) 1 WLR 805 (QB). Means any structure of place which displays signs indicating current use by

Inquiry

or inquest, yet it acquires a definite meaning in the context in which it is used, K.C. Malhotra v. Chancellor, H.P. University, Shimla, AIR 1995 HP 156. Includes 'investigation' into facts, causes, effects and relations generally, 'to

Commercial establishment

only ancillary to (a). [Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954, s. 2(5)], Chief Commissioner v. Federation of India Chambers of Commerce and Industry, (1975) 3 SCC 64: AIR 1974 SC 1527: (1975) 1 SCR 348. Means 'an

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Architect

to the liability of an architect for negligence, see Columbus Co. v. Clowes, (1903) 1 KB 244, and Chambers v. Goldthorpe, 1901 (1) KB 624; with regard to an architect's certificate, see the last-cited case and Eaglesham v.

Privilege

are privileged from arrest, eundo, morando et redeundo, going to coming from, and abiding in court--this includes judge's chambers; so clergymen as to divine service. See also the following titles and DISTRESS; LIBEL. The word privilege is … Privilege, a privilege is the opposite of a duty, and the correlative of 'no-right', Isha Valimohamad v. Haji Gulam Mohamad and Haji Dada Trust, AIR 1974 SC 2061 (2065): (1974) 2 SCC 484: (1975)

Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa

discharged for inability to agree, may be followed by a new trial, as was held by the Exchequer Chamber in Winsor v. Reg., (1866) LR 1 QB 390, where the prisoner was hanged after a second trial

Live stock

SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429. Livestock means domestic animal especially horses, cattle, sheep and pigs (see Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, p. 737). Historically these animals are associated with agriculture as they either help in carrying … stock, the word 'livestock' includes animals of every description. It is not confined to domestic animals, Royal Hatcheries v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1994 SC 666: 1994 Supp (1) SCC 429. Livestock means domestic animal especially

Public health

Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 50). Consult the works on public health of Lumley, Glen or Chambers. … Public health. The first (English) Public Health Act was passed in 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 63); this was an adoptive Act not applying to London, and forms the foundation of modern sanitary

Criminal Charge

consider, Regina (Mudie) v. Dover Magistrates' Ct (CA), (2003) 2 WLR 1344. The court concludes as did the chamber that the nature of the charges together with the nature and severity of the penalties, were such that

For

It also bears the sense of 'appropriate' or 'adapted to'; 'suitable to purpose'; vide Black's Legal Dictionary, Indian Chamber of Commerce v. C.I.T., AIR 1976 SC 348: (1976) 1 SCC 324: (1976) 1 SCR 830.

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