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Immunity from prosecution

Immunity from prosecution, the phrase 'immunity from prosecution' in s. 64 would mean 'Freedom from punishment during a proceeding instituted and carried on by law', Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi, AIR 2001 SC 2734 (2742): (2001) 8 SCC 289. [NDPS Act, 1985 (61 of 1985), s. 64]...

Legal, (1) lawful; according to law; (2) opposed to equitable.Legal, is what is in conformity with is in conformity with the letter or the rule of the law as administered in courts, Hemdutta v. State of Madhya Pradesh, 1969 MPLJ 506....

legal name

legal name 1 : a person's name that is usually the name given at birth and recorded on the birth certificate but that may be a different name that is used by a person consistently and independently or that has been declared the person's name by a court NOTE: If a person seeks to change a name by judicial process, the court may not deny the change absent any indication of a fraudulent purpose. In some states, a woman's legal name is presumed to include her husband's last name. 2 : the designation chosen by a business entity (as a corporation) and reported to the state (as in the articles of incorporation) ...

legal age

legal age : an age at which a person becomes entitled under the law to engage in a particular activity or becomes responsible for particular acts [the legal age for drinking in this state] ;broadly : age of majority compare age of consent, emancipate ...

legal aid society

legal aid society : an organization providing government-funded legal aid to the poor ...

legal fiction

legal fiction : something asssumed in law to be fact irrespective of the truth or accuracy of that assumption [the legal fiction that a day has no fractions "Fields v. Fairbanks North Star Borough, 818 P.2d 658 (1991)"] ...

legal aid

legal aid : aid provided by an organization established to serve the legal needs of the poor ...

legal personality

legal personality : the quality or state of being a legal person ...

malicious prosecution

malicious prosecution : the tort of initiating a criminal prosecution or civil suit against another party with malice and without probable cause ;also : an action for damages based on this tort brought after termination of the proceedings in favor of the party seeking damages called also malicious use of process; compare abuse of process ...

Prosecution

The act or process of prosecuting or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something pursuit by efforts of body or mind as the prosecution of a scheme plan design or undertaking the prosecution of war...

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