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commitment
or by someone (as a family member or government agent) authorized by statute to petition for the patient's involuntary commitment. Some form of a hearing and periodic review is required in involuntary commitment proceedings. A criminal defendant
bailment
of the property by accident or mistake (as by finding it or receiving a mistaken delivery) called also involuntary bailment gratuitous bailment : a bailment in which there is no compensation or benefit to one party ;esp
Abdication
then have liberty of returning, and the Lords ultimately gave way: see Macaulay's Hist. of Eng., ch. X. Involuntary resignations are also termed abdications, as Napoleon's abdication at Fontainebleau. See 1 Edw. 8, c. 4. Is the
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Motion
or position movement the passing of a body from one place or position to another whether voluntary or involuntary opposed to rest
Muscle reading
making discriminations between objects of choice of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects etc by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact
Sequestration
contend for it to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it It may be voluntary or involuntary
Sigh
than usual and immediately expel it to make a deep single audible respiration especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue exhaustion grief sorrow or the like
Sneeze
To emit air chiefly through the nose audibly and violently by a kind of involuntary convulsive force occasioned by irritation of the inner membrane of the nose
Act of Bankruptcy
330]. Act of bankruptcy, means an event, such as a debtor's fraudulent conveyance of property, that triggers an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding against a debtor, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 34. See BANKRUPT; DEBTOR'S SUMMONS; Williams on
Acquisition, acquire
is to become the owner of the property. One can, therefore, acquire a property either by voluntary or involuntary transfer, Devi Das Gopal Krishnan v. State of Punjab, AIR 1967 SC 1895 (1904): (1967) 3 SCR 557.
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