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Office

officers and ministers of the best and most lawful men, and sufficient to their estimation and knowledge. Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia, (The offices of a magistrate ought not to be saleable.) Lord Coke (Co. Litt.

Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia

Officia magistratus non debent esse venalia [Lat.], the offices of magistrates ought not to be sold.

Official

s. 197) Official, formal; authorised. In the Civil Law, he is a minister of, or attendant upon, a magistrate. In the Canon Law, he is the person to whom a bishop commits the charge of his spiritual

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Officiariis non faciendis vel amovendis

Officiariis non faciendis vel amovendis, a writ addressed to the magistrates of a corporation, requiring them not to make such a man an officer, or to put one out

Person of unsound mind

all other cases the requirements are:- (1) An order of judicial authority (county Court judge, stipendiary or police magistrate, or justice of the peace specially appointed) for the detention as persons of unsound mind of any such

May

the opening words and hence the words 'subject to' cannot be construed as 'notwithstanding', Matwal Chand v. District Magistrate, Badaun, 1953 All LJ 395: 1953 All WR (HC) 431: 1953 All 687. The word 'may' occurring in

Personally interested

v. Marjad Koeri, AIR 1972 Pat 208: (1972) Cr LJ 788: (1977) BLJR 403. The question whether a Magistrate is 'personally interested' in a case within the meaning of s. 556, Criminal Procedure Code, has essentially to

Petty Sessions

summary jurisdiction, consisting of two or more justices, sitting in a petty sessional Court-house,' and includes 'any stipendiary magistrate when sitting in a Court-house or place or which he is authorized to do alone any act authorized

Photographs

amended by the (English) Post Office Act, 1935, s. 13 and 1st Sch.] Photographing or sketching a judge, magistrate, coroner or any litigant, juror, etc., in Court or its precincts is an offence under the (English) Criminal

May and shall

May and shall, The word 'may' in s. 363 does not mean 'shall', and that the Magistrate has under that s. a discretion whether he should pass an order for demolition or not, Corporation of

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