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Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884 (English)

and discharge of criminal lunatics, the principal amendment being that effected bys. 10, which transfers the expense of maintenance of criminal lunatics from their parish or county to the country generally.

Criminal proceeding

to prevent apprehended breach of the peace, orders to bind down persons who are a danger to the maintenance of peace and order, or orders aimed at preventing vagrancy are contemplated to be passed, S.A.L. Narayan Row

Custom and usage

a rule applicable only to a family it has not been discontinued by the family. [Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 (78 of 1956), s. 3 (a)]

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Date of detention under the order

Date of detention under the order, The words 'the date of detention under the order' mean the date on which the detenu was arrested under the order, Deonarayan Mondal v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1973...

De lunatico inquirendo, writ

If the party be found non compos, the care of his person, with a suitable allowance for his maintenance, is usually committed to one of his relations or friends, then called his committee. The proceedings are by

Deciners, Decenniers, or Doziners

Doziners, such as were wont to have the oversight of the Friburghs or views of frankpledge for the maintenance of the King's peace. The limit and compass of their jurisdiction was called decenna, because it commonly consisted

Dependant and dependent

have no right to the payment of compensation.' If several members of a family who contribute to the maintenance of the household are killed, the family is partly dependent on the earnings of each, Hodgson v. West

Dependants of ex-serviceman

is liable to maintain according to the law in that part of Her Majesty's dominions in which the maintenance order was made, Harris v. Harris, (1949) 2 All ER 318.

Desertion

Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg....

Church of Scotland

effect of which was to transfer all ecclesiastical property and endowments, as well as the responsibility, for their maintenance and control, from the heriters to the Church itself. In 1929 union took place between the church of

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