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Confiscation

Acts. See FORFEITURE. Means once a confiscation proceeding is initiated, the said power cannot be exercised by the Magistrate, State of West Bengal v. Sujit Kumar Rana, (2004) 4 SCC 129.

not to be comprised in any other county, but to be governed by their own sheriffs and other magistrate, so that no officers of the county at large have any power to intermeddle therein. Twelve cities and

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Custody

must be taken to be a compendious expression referring to the events on the happening of which the Magistrate can entertain a bail petition of an accused, Sunita Devi v. State of Bihar, (2005) 1 SCC 608

Charged with and tried for an offence

use of separate words. Ss. 251, 251A, 252, 253 and 254 of the Cr PC provided that the Magistrate may discharge the accused where the charge against the accused appears to be groundless indicates that the words

Derogation

and EASEMENTS. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to be in derogation of the powers of the Magistrate to proceed under s. 107. [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 145(10)] 'Derogation' means, taking away, lessening or impairing

Emancipation

to lay hold of the thing. (3) The Justinian emancipation, a mere declaration of the pater-familias before the magistrate, no leave being required for the purpose (recta via), Sand. Just.

Expressly

of Session can take cognizance of any offence directly, without the case being committed to it by a Magistrate, Moly v. State of Karnataka, (2004) 4 SCC 584 (588): AIR 2004 SC 1890; see also (2004) 1

Final report, charge-sheet

s. 169, i.e., where there is no sufficiency of evidence to justify forwarding of a case to a Magistrate, it is termed variously i.e., referred charge, final report or summary, Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra,

Forthwith

it should probably be understood as allowing a reasonable time for doing it', Bidya Deb Barma v. District Magistrate, Tripura, AIR 1969 SC 323 (325). The expression 'forthwith' does not necessarily and always means instantaneous. The expression

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