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Home Dictionary Name: infamouslyInfamous crime
Infamous crime. Sending any letter threatening to accuse another of an 'infamous crime,' whether the receiver be innocent or not, with intent to extort money, may be punished up to penal servitude for life by s. 46 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), which defines an infamous crime within the enactment as sodomy, or bestiality, or assault with intent or attempt to commit, or induce-ment to commit or permit, such crime. This section is repealed by the Larceny Act, 1916, which substantially re-enacts this section without the use of the words 'infamous crime' (s. 29).'...
infamous
infamous : of, relating to, or being a crime punishable by imprisonment (as a year or more in a penitentiary) that can lead to loss of rights and privileges upon conviction ;also : convicted of such a crime ...
Infame
To defame to make infamous...
Infamize
To make infamous to defame...
Infamously
In an infamous manner or degree scandalously disgracefully shamefully...
Infamousness
The state or quality of being infamous infamy...
Infamous conduct in a professional respect
Infamous conduct in a professional respect. A term used by the General Medical Council to denote contraventions of the practice of the profession, such as advertising as well as disgraceful or incompetent conduct; see Medical Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 90), s. 29....
high crime
high crime : a crime of infamous nature contrary to public morality but not technically constituting a felony ;specif : an offense that the U.S. Senate deems to constitute an adequate ground for removal of the president, vice president, or any civil officer as a person unfit to hold public office and deserving of impeachment ...
Nidering
Infamous dastardly...
Amotion
Amotion, a putting away, a removing, deprivation or ouster of possession. In municipal borough, a removal from his office of a councillor by his fellow-councillors, frequently exercised before the (English) Municipal Corporation Act, 1835, and not expressly abolished either by that Act or by the (English) Municipal Corporation Act, 1882. The power of amotion is implied or may be conferred by charter. Under the old law it has been said that offences justifying amotion must either be committed in the official character, infamous, or indictable (Kyd on Corporations); but habitual drunkenness was held a sufficient cause in Reg. v. Taylor, (1694) 3 Salk 231, where also a bye-law giving power to amove for just cause was held good; nor does there seem to be any means except amotion of getting rid of a clearly unfit councillor who refuses to resign. See Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd ed., Vol. 8, pp. 38 et seq....
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