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Line clear

the lines in the station yard are clear for reception of the train but that there is no obstruction on the track beyond the outer-most signals on the down side of the station which the train has

Mala fide exercise of power

Mala fide exercise of power, a right to get rid of the obstruction then and there by binding down the complainants or removing them from the place might be mistaken. Their

Malpractice

Malpractice, includes dishonesty cheating, imperso-nation, obstruction in carrying out public works as specified in the contract and failure to observe, while submitting the tender,

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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

Mandatory injunction

Act, s. 39). An injunction requiring the performance of some Act, e.g., the removal of a building or obstruction; see R.S.C. Ord. L., r. 6, and notes in A.P.

Snow

a regulation under the London Traffic Act, 1924, s. 10, is to prevail over any bye-law. If any obstruction shall arise in any highway from accumulation of snow, the surveyor is required from time to time, and

Breach of privilege

or of either House of Parliament in its collective capacity or of its committees; also includes action which obstruct the House in the performance of its functions and thereby lower dignity and authority such as disobedience of

Dower

1926. The original law of dower became among our ancestors, with the increase of alienation, highly inconvenient and obstructive of the free course of conveyances. The legislature by the 27 Hen. 8, c. 10 (the Statute of

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)

Conspiracy

cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of public justice ''(14 & 15 Vict. c. 100, s. 29); see

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