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Taking cognizance of an offence

Taking cognizance of an offence, when on receiving a complaint, the Magistrate applies his mind for the purposes of proceeding under s. 200 and the succeeding sections in Chapter XV

Inquiry

Bank, (1998) 5 SCC 554. Means every inquiry other than a trial, conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or Court. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (g)] Means search for knowledge: investigation

To be a witness

or making intelligi-ble gestures as in the case of a dumb witness, M.P. Sharma v. Satish Chandra, District Magistrate., AIR 1954 SC 300 (304): (1954) SCR 1077. (ii) 'To be a witness' in its ordinary grammatical sense

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Specific provision to the contrary

contemplates is that a child under the age of sixteen years may be tried by a Chief Judicial Magistrate or any court specially empowered under the Children Act, 1960. It is an enabling provision, and, in our

Total

Total, is synonymous with 'whole', Mangala Prasad Jaiswal v. District Magistrate, AIR 1971 All 77.

Treatment

steps taken in order to effect a cure of an injury or disease, Himanshu Sekhar Nandy v. District Magistrate, Balasore, 1976 Cut LT 1262: 1976 Cut LR (Cr) 457. Treatment, would include such steps as would not

Trial, inquiry

s. 2(g) of the Code as 'every inquiry, other than a trial, conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or court.' So the trial is distinct from inquiry and inquiry must always be a forerunner to the

Wakeman

Wakeman [quasi, watchman], the Chief Magistrate of Ripon, in Yorkshire, Camden.

Wapentake, or Wapentachium

Lincolnshire, Nottingham-shire, Derbyshire, Rutland, and Leicestershire; the term is said to be derived from recognition of the local magistrate by touching his arms, but this is very questionable, though it unquestionably has reference to armed gatherings of

When

which occasion; and then, sometimes implying suddenness, and just then, and at that moment, Madan Tiwari v. District Magistrate Rajnandgaon, 1975 Jab LJ 824: 1975 MP LJ 754.

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