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A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers Called also mountain laurel ivy bush lamb kill calico bush etc...
game license
a license authorizing the bearer to kill a certain type of animal during a specified period of time...
Pigeons
Pigeons. Unlawfully and wilfully to 'kill, wound, or take any house dove or pigeon under such circumstances as shall not amount to larceny at common law' is, by s. 23 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1861, punishable 'on conviction before a justice of the peace' by fine up to 2l., over and above the value of the bird, and though the owner be compensated and satisfied, any other person may prosecute, see Cotterill v. Penn, (1935) 51 TLR 459, and LQR (1935), p. 60, in which a member of the 'National Homing Union' prosecuted. As to cruelty to pigeons, see (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911, s. 15, as amended by the Protection of Animals Act, 1927....
Piracy
Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or State, empowering them to attack others. They can, therefore, be only regarded in the light of robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of war (see Piracy Jure Gentium, 1934, AC 586, where a frustrated attempt was held to be piracy by that law); but it is not allowed to kill them without trial, except in battle. Those who surrender or are taken prisoners must be brought before the proper magistrates, and dealt with according to law. By the ancient Common Law of England, piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to ...
Poaching
Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra).Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or bustards--or woodcock, snipe, quails, landrail, or rabbits, is punishable summarily by fine up to 2l., and in case of a trespass by five or more, up to 5l.; the leave of the occupier being no defence if the landlord or other person have by reservation the right to kill the game. [See (English) GAME ACT, 1831, ss. 2, 30]Unlawfully taking in the night, i.e., between the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement of the first hour before sunrise, 'game,' as above defined, is punishable summarily by imprisonment with hard labour; and any persons, to the number of three or more, by night unlawfully entering lands, for the purpose of taking or destroying any 'game,' as above defined, or rabbits (any of them being armed with any gun or other ...
Prolicide
Prolicide [fr. proles, Lat., offspring, and c'do, to kill], the destruction of human offspring. It is either f'ticide or infanticide, which see, Dunglison's Med. Lex....
Pr'munire
Pr'munire [fr. pr'moneri Lat., to be forewarned]. It is an offence so called from the words of the writ preparatory to the prosecution thereof: pr'munire facias A.B. (cause A.B. to be forewarned) that he appear before us to answer the contempt wherewith he stands charged; which contempt is particularly recited in the Preamble to the writ. The offence of pr'munire is, in effect, described by Balckstone to be 'introducing a foreign power into the land, and creating imperium in imperio, by paying that obedience to alien process which constitutionally belonged to the King alone'; see 4 Bl. Com. pp. 103 et seq.The statute of pr'munire (which are all still unrepealed, and are of the most confused character) were framed to encounter papal usurpation by presentation of aliens to English benefices. The first of them, called the Statutes of Provisors, was passed in 1350, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of Edward III., and was the foundation of all the subsequent statute of pr'munire, of wh...
Shochet
Shochet, a Jewish butcher; in effect a religious order invested by the Chief Rabbi with authority to kill and prepare meat in accordance with the Jewish ceremonial....
Social democracy
Social democracy, social democracy means 'a way of life which recognise liberty, equality and fraternity as principles of life.' They are not separate items in a trinity but they form union of trinity. To diverse one from the other is to defeat the very purpose of democracy. Without equality, liberty would produce the supremacy of the few over the many. Equality without liberty would kill individual initiative. Without fraternity, liberty and equality could not become a natural course of things, Valsama Paul v. Cochin University, AIR 1996 SC 1011 (1014): (1996) 3 SCC 545....
Thistle
Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece, called a 'thistle-take,' to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Notinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called thistle-take.It has been held that an occupier of land has no duty towards his neighbour to prevent thistles from seeding, and is not liable to his neighbour for damage by the seeds being blown on to his neighbour's land, Giles v. Walker, (1890) 24 QBD 656...
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