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Judicial Act
to justices of the peace, and declare that certain acts shall only be valid if done by two Magistrates. If it be only a ministerial act, it is not requisite that the two Magistrates should be together
Sessions of the peace
their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:- I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the
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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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
Persona designata
powers. If the answer is in the affirmative, then such person becomes persona designata, P.V. Somaraju v. Munsif Magistrate, Bhimavaram, AIR 1928 AP 22. A persona designata implies is a person pointed out or described as an
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
Plebiscite or Plebiscitum
Romans a law enacted by the common people at the request of the tribune or some other plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate; more particularly applied to the law which the people made, when upon
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
Police report
Police report, means a report forwarded by a police officer to a Magistrate under sub-s. (2) of s. 173. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (r)]
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