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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,

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

Street offences

police regulations, 'after having been made acquainted with them,' for regulating routes during divine service, and for preventing obstructions during public processions. The penalties under each Act are up to 40s., with liability to apprehension by a

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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

Notwithstanding

Without prevention or obstruction from or by in spite of

VerbarIleus

A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction It is characterized by complete constipation with griping pains in the abdomen which is greatly distended and in

Wires, Overhead

Wires, Overhead. For power to urban authority to make bye-laws for prevention of danger or obstruction from overhead telegraphic wires: see the Public Health and Local Government Acts. As to the power of the

Wreck

remove wrecks obstructing navigation; an amending (English) Act of 1889 (52 Vict. c. 5) extended the protection from obstruction to lifeboats engaged in lifeboat service; and these enactments are now replaced by ss. 530-534 of the (English)

Wrongful restraint

direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said wrongfully to restrain that person. Exception.-The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have

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