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Transportation for life
Transportation for life, a person sentenced to trans-portation for life may be detained in prison for life, Sambha Ji Krishan Ji v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1974 SC 147: (1974) 1
Borstal institution
of Crime Act,1908, and the same section describes such institutions as 'places in which young offenders whilst detained may be given such industrial training and other instruction, and be subject to such disciplinary and moral influences as will
Recaption
wife, child, or servant, in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or master, may lawfully claim and retake them, wherever he happens to find them, so it be not in a riotous … injured. This happens when anyone has deprived another of his property, in goods or chattels personal, or wrongfully detains one's wife, child, or servant, in which case the owner of the goods, and the husband, parent, or
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Maritime perils
of princes and peoples, jettisons, barratry and any other perils which are either of the like kind or may be designated by the policy. [Marine Insurance Act, 1963 (11 of 1963), s. 2(e)] … that is to say, perils of the seas, fire, war perils, pirates, rovers, thieves, captures, seizures, restraints and detainments of princes and peoples, jettisons, barratry and any other perils which are either of the like kind or
Detinue
S.C. 1883, O. XLVIII., taken from (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 78, by which a writ of delivery may be issued ordering the sheriff to distrain upon the defendant's goods till he delivers the chattel; and as to … Bryant v. Herbert, (1878) 3 CPD 389] and in bankruptcy. As to the actual recovery of a chattel detained, see R. S.C. 1883, O. XLVIII., taken from (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 78, by which a writ
Corrective institution
persons, who are in need of correction, maybe detained under this Act, and includes a shelter where undertrials may be kept in pursuance of this Act. [Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (104 of 1956), s. 2 (b)]
Replevin
chattle wrongfully taken or detained Originally it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention
writ of habeas corpus
officials who have custody of a prisoner to bring the prisoner before the court, so that the court may determine whether the prisoner is being detained lawfully. Source: Federal Judicial Center
Friend or agent
Friend or agent, a 'friend' who, in truth and substance, is a friend of the detenu may appear for the detenu but if such a 'friend' also happens to be a legal practitioner, he cannot, … of the detenu who in essentially a comrade in the profession of the detenu for which he is detained, such a 'friend' or 'agent' will also be barred from appearance on behalf of the detenu, Devji Vallabhbhai
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
express-ing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made, that a Court upon a habeas corpus may examine, and, according to the circumstances of the case, may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner. … a right to be delivered, this writ ought of right to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the Privy Council, or any other power.
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