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Lock-up houses, places for the temporary confinement of prisoners-5 & 6Vict. c. 109, s. 22 (counties); 11 & 12 Vict c. 101 (borders of counties); and 31 Vict. c.22 (counties and boroughs)....
Open
Free of access not shut up not closed affording unobstructed ingress or egress not impeding or preventing passage not locked up or covered over applied to passageways as an open door window road etc also to inclosed structures or objects as open houses boxes baskets bottles etc also to means of communication or approach by water or land as an open harbor or roadstead...
Forfeiture
Forfeiture, a penalty for an offence or unlawful act, or for some wilful omission of a tenant of property whereby he loses it, together with his title, which devolves upon others.Forfeiture resulted from the following circumstan-ces:--(1) Treason, misprision of treason, felony, murder, self-murder, pr'munire, and striking or threatening a judge. But the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), enacted that no conviction, etc., for treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any forfeiture except as consequent on outlawry. The Act also makes provision for the appointment by the Crown of administrators of the property of convicts.(2) Conveyance contrary to law, as transferring a freehold to an alien, who formerly could take lands but could not hold them; wherefore upon office found the Crown was entitled to the land. But the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914 (substituted for the (English) Naturalization Act, 1870), subject to certain provisoes, enables ali...
Lock out
Lock out, in the case of a lock-out, the industry as such is not closed down even temporarily; only particular workers re refused work. Closing down a business even temporarilyis distinct and different from a lock-out, Indian Metal and Metallurgical Corporation v. Industrial Tribunal, AIR 1953 Mad 98.The word 'lock-out', as stated in the Presidency Jute Co's case [(1952) Lab AC 62], in its dictionary sense means refusal on the part of an employer to furnish to his operatives except on conditions to be accepted by the latter collectively, Feroz Din v. State of West Bengal AIR 1960 SC 363 (367): (1960) 2 SCR 319. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947)]It means the temporary closing of a place of employment, or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ and number of persons employed by him. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (l)...
black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison a military lock up or guardroom now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Hole in a fort at Calcutta called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
Guardhouse
A building which is occupied by the guard and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct hence a lock up...
Lockup
A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up a watchhouse a jail...
Executor de son tort.
Executor de son tort. See (English) A.E. Act, 1925, ss. 28, 29, and s. 55(1)(xi.). If a stranger take upon himself to act as executor or administrator (see 14 Halsbury's L. of E., 2nd Edn., para. 282), without any just authority (as by intermeddling with the goods of the deceased, and any other transactions), he is called in Law an executor of his own wrong, de son tort, and is liable to the extent of the assets which have come to him and to all the trouble of an executorship without any of the profits or advantages; but the doing of acts of necessity or humanity, as locking up the goods or burying the corpse of the deceased, will not amount to such an intermeddling as will charge a man as executor of his own wrong. Such an one cannot bring an action himself in right of the deceased; but actions may be brought against him, 1 Wms. Exors.; and see Peters v. Leeder, (1878) 47 LJ QB 573; A.-G. v. New York Breweries Co., 1899 AC 62. As to his liability in respect of a term of years of which...
Occupation and possession
Occupation and possession, the 'occupation' or 'possession' which is synonym of 'occupation' in this context may take various forms and even keeping the household effects and locking up that portion by the owner instead of letting out to any body are acts of occupation. Even if a landlord is serving outside or living with his near relations but makes casual visits to his house and thus retains control over the entire or a portion of the property, he would in law be deemed to be in occupation of the same, Bimla Devi v. First Additional District Judge, AIR 1984 SC 1376: (1984) 2 SCC 582: (1984) 3 SCR 315....
Place of safety
Place of safety, means any place or institution (not being a police lock-up or jail), the person incharge of which is willing temporarily to receive and take care of the juvenile and which, in the opinion of the competent authority, may be a place of safety for the juvenile. [Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 (56 of 2000), s. 2 (q)]...
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