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Lurking house trespass by night

Lurking house trespass by night, whoever commits lurking house-trespass after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit lurking house-trespass by night. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 444)...


Lurking house-trespass

Lurking house-trespass, whoever commits house-trespass having taken precautions to conceal such house-trespass from some person who has a right to exclude or eject the trespasser from the building, tent or vessel which is the subject of the trespass, is said to commit 'lurking house-trespass'. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 443)Means that the accused took some active means to conceal their presence. The accused would take some steps to escape notice, Nasiruddin v. State of Assam, AIR 1971 SC 1254 (1255): (1971) 3 SCC 408. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 457)...


Eavesdropping

The habit of lurking about dwelling houses and other places where persons meet for private intercourse secretly listening to what is said and then tattling it abroad The offense is indictable at common law...


Latitancy

Act or state of lying hid or lurking...


Lurcher

One that lurches or lies in wait one who watches to pilfer or to betray or entrap one who lurks a lurker a poacher...


Lurk

To lie hidden to lie in wait...


Lurker

One who lurks...


Skulk

To hide or get out of the way in a sneaking manner to lie close or to move in a furtive way to lurk...


Snook

To lurk to lie in ambush...


Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace

Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one county and the offender was lurking in another county, then, on proof of the handwriting of the justice who granted the warrant, a justice in such other county endorsed his name on the back of it, and thus gave authority to execute the warrant in such other county. See Indictable Offences Act, 1848, ss. 11-15, and later Acts. Now by the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, a warrant lawfully issued by a justice of the peace may be executed anywhere in England and Wales.A warrant issued by a metropolitan police magistrate in respect of an offence committed within the metropolitan police district may be executed in England and Wales by any constable to whom it is addressed without backing (2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 17). See METROPOLITAN POLICE MAGISTRATES....


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