Malicious Prosecution - Law Dictionary Search Results
impossibility
the incompletion of an intended criminal act NOTE: Factual impossibility is not a complete defense and does allow prosecution for attempt or for another inchoate offense. For example, if the defendant constructed a bomb that failed to
criminal
relating to, involving, or being a crime [ neglect] [ conduct] 2 : relating to crime or its prosecution [brought a action] [ code] compare civil, penal n 1 : one who has committed a crime 2
Abolition
destroying; also the leave given by the sovereign or judges to a criminal accuser to desist from further prosecution, 25 Hen. 8, c. 21. Abolition means, 'to destroy, extinguish, abrogate or annihilate', Gurdit Singh Aulakh v. State
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alimony
-pen-den-tā-lē-tā] : alimony granted pending a suit for divorce or separation that includes a reasonable allowance for the prosecution of the suit called also temporary alimony lump sum alimony : alimony awarded after divorce that is a
Discrepancy and contradiction
of the witness is fatal for the case, minor discrepancy or variance in evidence will not make the prosecution's case doubtful. The normal course of the human conduct would be that while narrating a particular incidence there
Justitium
Justitium, a ceasing from the prosecution of law, and exercising justice in places judicial. The Vacation, Cowel's Law Dict
Indicatif
Indicatif, an abolished writ by which a prosecution was in some cases removed from a Court-Christian to the King's Bench
In pursuance of
order or anything in consequence or conformable to or according to; act of pursuing, carrying out and performance, prosecution, Aircraft Employees' Housing Co-op. Society Ltd. v. Secy. Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, AIR 1996 SC 3501 (3503):
Illicitum collegium
Means an illegal association; a collegium engaging in illegal activity. Members of an illiciatum collegium were subject to prosecution, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 750.
Glorification in any manner
a wider con-notation than the expression 'the glorification of Sati' as employed in s. 5. In case of prosecution under s. 6(2) r/w s. 6(3), what would be punishable is such defiance or contravention of the order
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