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Criminal contempt

tends to interfere with, the due course of any judicial proceedings; (iii) interferes or tends to interfere, or obstructs or tends to obstruct, the administration of justice in any other manner, S. Abdul Karim v. M.K. Prakash,

Wrongful restraint

Wrongful restraint, Whoever voluntarily obstructs any person so as the prevent that person from proceeding in any direction in which that person has

Quare obstruxit

having a liberty to pass through his neighbour's ground, could not enjoy his right because the owner had obstructed it, Fleta, 1. 4, c. 26. Means why he obstructed. A writ for one who could not enjoy

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Way

happens when a person, who has a right of way over another's grounds, by grant or prescription, is obstructed by enclosures or other obstacles, or by ploughing across it, by which means he cannot enjoy the right

Wreck

Act, 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 16), gave power to harbour and conser-vancy authorities to remove wrecks obstructing navigation; an amending (English) Act of 1889 (52 Vict. c. 5) extended the protection from obstruction to lifeboats

Injunction

restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by them, may be enumerated obstructions to highways and bridges, public rivers and harbours, and everything that renders the enjoyment of life and property

Street offences

fireworks, and allowing ferocious dogs to be at large. The Act of 1847 also includes keeping swine, and obstructing footways. The Act of 1839 also includes bill posting on buildings without consent of owner, 'blowing horns or

Contempt of court

discontinue his action, kidnapping or corrupting witnesses or attempting to do so, corrupting or attempting to corrupt jurors, obstructing or attempting to obstruct the officers of the Court on their way to their duties, speaking or writing

Airway

Airway, a passage for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously fill up, obstruct, or damage, with intent to destroy, obstruct, or render useless the airway to any mine, is a felony

Dharna

otherwise disrupted, disturbed or hampered, the dharna may amount to contempt because the administration of justice would be obstructed, J.R. Parashar v. Prasant Bhashan, (2001) 6 SCC 735 (746)

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