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Brought in transit

which they are brought into India without any landing in India, but does not include a conveyance in innocent passage through Indian territory Indian territorial waters or Indian airspace of a foreign conveyance carrying goods. Explanation I.--A

Minatur innocentibus, qui parcit nocentibus

Minatur innocentibus, qui parcit nocentibus [Lat.], he threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. --4 Co. 45.--(He threatens the innocent

Representation

which the other party can or should form his own opinion is not as a rule actionable; 'an innocent misrepresentation gives no ground for damages,' but this involves the question whether the misrepresentation is innocent. If made

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Taxatio ecclesiastica

Taxatio ecclesiastica, the valuation of ecclesiastical benefices made through every diocese in England, on occasion of Pope Innocent IV. granting to King Henry III, the tenth of all spirituals for three years. this taxation was first

Torture

Sulla, c. 28) emphatically denounced it as leaving no place for truth, and Seneca as forcing even the innocent to lie. Under British rule torture is universally acknow-ledged to have been a most unsatisfactory mode of getting

Vicarious responsibility

A principal is liable for acts of his agent within the scope of his mandate. If A., an innocent principal, by B. his agent to report, misleads C., his selling agent, and C., relying on the report,

Lawful possession

not enter into whether an act is unlawful or tortuous, though it does as to whether it is innocent or criminal. To establish 'lawful possession'. It is absolutely necessary for a party to prove with the documents

Restitution of stolen goods

(unless they be negotiable instruments) notwithstanding that the guilty party may have sold them for value to an innocent purchaser [see s. 24 (1), Sale of Goods Act, 1893], but see MARKET OVERT; a sum not exceeding

Reasonable doubt

doubt of guilt is a reasonable doubt. A vague conjecture or an inference of the possibility of the innocence of the accused is not a reasonable doubt. A reasonable doubt is one which arises from a consideration

Paradisaic

Of or pertaining to or resembling paradise paradisiacal as paradisaical innocence an age of paradisaical happiness

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