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One who makes mischief one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity...
co-maker
co-maker : one of two or more persons who sign an instrument to indicate a promise to pay a financial obligation NOTE: Any co-maker may be sued for the entire amount of the indebtedness, although a co-maker who is forced to pay more than his or her share may seek contribution from the other co-makers. ...
Mischief
Mischief, whoever with intent to cause of knowing that he is likely to cause, wrongful loss or damage to the public or to any person causes the destruction of any property or any such change in the property or in the situation thereof as destroys or diminishes its value or utility or affects it injuriously commits mischief. (See Indian Penal Code, s. 425).--This word is often used as signifying the object or purpose of a statute.It shall have the same meaning as in s. 425 of the Indian Penal Code. [Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984, s. 2 (a)]...
Public mischief
Public mischief. Conduct causing or tending to cause public mischief constitutes a misdemeanour at common law. Prosecutions for this offence have become increasingly frequent of late years, and as to what constitutes the offence, see R. v. Munley, (1932) 1 KB 529 (false information to Police), Kerr v. Hill, Duncan v. Jones, (1936) 1 KB 218 (public meeting, apprehension of breach of the peace); and see Public Meeting Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 66), and title infra....
Maker and drawer
Maker and drawer, a clear distinction appears to have been made between 'maker' and 'drawer', the former word being used in a more general sense as applying to promissory notes, negotiable instru-ments and cheques, while the word 'drawer' is restricted to bills of exchange or cheques only, and is nowhere used in connection with promissory notes, Firm Sheikh Mohammad Ismail Maula Bakhsh v. Mian Abdul Majid Khan, AIR 1937 Lah 259....
malicious mischief
malicious mischief : the act or offense of intentionally damaging or destroying another's property (as from feelings of ill will) compare vandalism ...
maker
maker : one (as an issuer) that undertakes to pay a negotiable instrument and esp. a note [sign a note as rather than indorser] ...
Maker
Maker, the person who signs a promissory note; by making it he 'engages that he will pay it according to its tenour, and is precluded from denying to a holder in due course the existence of the payee and his than capacity to endorse.'-Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 88....
Parcel makers
Parcel makers, two officers in the Exchequer who formerly made the parcels of the escheators' accounts, wherein they charged them with everything they had levied for the sovereign's use within the time of their being in office, and delivered the same to the auditors to make up their accounts therewith, Prac. Exch....
Confession
Confession, a statement in order to amount to a 'confession' must either admit in terms the offence, or at any rate substantially all the facts which constitute the offence. An admission of an incriminating fact, howsoever grave, is not byitself a confession. A statement which contains an exculpatory assertion of some fact, which if true, would negative the offence alleged cannot amount to a confession, Veera Ibrahim v. State of Maharashtra, (1976) 2 SCC 302: AIR 1976 SC 1167 (1171): (1967) 3 SCR 672. [Evidence Act (1 of 1987), s. 24]'Confession' in common acceptation means and implies acknowledgment of guilt--its evidentiary value and its acceptability however shall have to be assessed by the Court having due regard to the credibility of the witnesses. In the event, however, the Court is otherwise in a position having due regard to the attending circumstances believes the witness before whom the confession is made and is otherwise satisfied that the confession is in fact voluntary and...
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