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Portgreve, or Portreeve

Portgreve, or Portreeve, a magistrate in certain sea-coast towns.

Preventive detention

of preventive detention, nor is an order of preventive detention a bar to prosecution, Alijan Mian v. District Magistrate, AIR 1983 SC 1130 (1132): (1983) 4 SCC 301: (1983) 3 SCR 939. [Constitution of India, Art. 22]

Procedural due process

or property except in accordance with the procedure laid down by the statutory law, Ganesh Bhatt v. District Magistrate Almora, 1993 All Cr Cas 204.

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Provost

Provost, the principal magistrate of a royal burough in Scotland; a governing officer of a university or college.

Public order

v. C. Anita, AIR 2004 SC 4423. Means activities disturbing maintenance of public order, Shamshar Ahmad v. District Magistrate, (1994) Cr LJ 180. Means even tempo of life of the community. That being so, even all murders

Office

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. 234 a) speaks of the above statute as 'a

Musician, London

shall be liable to a penalty of not more than forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for anytime not more than three days. [or in

Nuisance

is essentially to prevent public nuisance and involves a sense of urgency in the sense that if the Magistrate fails to take recourse immediately irreparable damage would be done to the public, State of Madhya Pradesh v.

Monetary relief

Monetary relief, means the compensation which the Magistrate may order the respondent to pay to the aggrieved person, at any stage during the hearing of an

Misprision

impeachment; also, embezzlement of the public money, punishable by fine and imprisonment; also, such contempts of the executive magistrate as demonstrate themselves by some arrogant and undutiful behaviour towards the sovereign and government. And to endeavour to

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