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Liberty, a franchise, being a royal privilege or a branch there of, subsisting in the hands of a subject, as a liberty to hold pleas in a Court of one's own.The privileged districts, called liberties from being exempt from the sheriff jurisdiction, having separate commissions of the peace, and not being incorporated boroughs, might, by Order in Council, be united with the counties in which they were situate upon petition of the justices of the liberty or of the Courts, under the (English) Liberties Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 105), of which statute, it is believed, but little advantage was taken. As to election of a 'people's magistrate,' in 1891, by the tenants and inhabitants of the liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, in Essex, see Law Journal for July 11, 1891.By s. 48, sub-s. 1, of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1888, every liberty and franchise of a county forms for the purpose of that Act part of the county of which it forms part for the purposes of parliamentary elections.--liberty...
Personal liberty
Personal liberty, in Art. 21 of the Constitution of India takes in the right of locomotion and to travel abroad and no person can be deprived of his right to travel except according to procedure established by law, Satwant Singh v. A.P.O., New Delhi, AIR 1967 SC 1836.In England right to personal liberty means in substance a person's right not to be subjected to imprisonment, arrest or physical coercion in any manner that does not admit of legal justification; secured by the strict maintenance of the principle that no man can be arrested or imprisoned except in due course of law, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, A.V. Dicey, 2003, pp. 207, 208.Means in ordinary language liberty relating to or concerning the person or body of the individual and personal liberty in this sense is the antitheses of physical restraint or coercion. 'Personal liberty means right not be subjected to imprisonment, arrest or other physical coercion in any manner that does not admit of lega...
Jail liberties
Jail liberties, means bounds within which a jail or prison lies and throughout which certain prisoners are allowed to move freely, usu. after giving bond for the liberties. The bounds are considered an extension of the prison walls. Historically, jail liberties were given in England to those imprisoned for debt. The prisoners will be allowed to move freely within the city in which the prison was located also spelled goal liberties. Also termed jail limits, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839....
Life or personal liberty
Life or personal liberty, the expression 'life or personal liberty' in Article 21 of the Constitution includes right to live with human dignity which would include guarantee against torture and assault by the State, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (729). (Constitution of India, Article, 21)...
Keepers of the Liberty of England
Keepers of the Liberty of England. See CUSTODES LIBERTATIS, etc....
Liberty to mention
Liberty to mention, have been as a matter of fact a phraseology which did come through judicial process without any definite legal sanction for the purpose of clarification, if needed, but not otherwise, Kewal Chand Mimani v. S.K. Sen, (2001) 6 SCC 512...
Liberty of the Rules
Liberty of the Rules, a privilege to go out of the Fleet and Marshalsea prisons within certain limits and there reside. Abolished by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22....
Claim of liberty
Claim of liberty, a suit or petition to the king in the Court of Exchequer, to have liberties and franchises confirmed there by the attorney-general....
ordered liberty
ordered liberty ...
liberty of contract
liberty of contract :freedom of contract ...
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