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False imprisonment

False imprisonment, restraining personal liberty without lawful authority, for which offence the law has not only decreed a punishment as a public crime,

only continues so long as they remain in a man's actual possession, but ceases if they regain their liberty, unless they have animus revertendi, as in the case of pigeons, tame hawks, etc. (2) Ratione impotenti', on

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with

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Right

is said to be his right, 1 Stark. Evid. 1, n. (b). It has been described as a liberty of doing or possessing something consistently with law, or more strictly, the liberty of the doing or possessing

Petition of Right

Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign. In the first Parliament

Procedure established by law

ambit of its legislative power, all that is required to deprive a person of his life or personal liberty is to lay down a procedure by an intra vires enactment, A Commentary on the Constitution of India,

Toll

7th Edn. [fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll, Wel.; taille, Fr.] has two significations:- (1) A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a

Slavery

Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's

Preferred

the scheme and the context; its import must help, not hamper, the object of the enactment even if liberty win language may be necessary. Black's Law Dictionary gives the following meaning: PREFER: To bring before; to prosecute;

Imprisonment

the Indian Penal Code. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(27)] The restraint of a person's liberty under the custody of another. It extends in law to confinement not only in a gaol, but in

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