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Omits and refuses, the words omits and refuses indicates the essential element of volition and includes an omission, AIR 1966 Punj 137 (139). [Punjab Municipality Act (3 of 1911), s. 24]...
Disobedient
Neglecting or refusing to obey omitting to do what is commanded or doing what is prohibited refractory not observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority applied to persons and acts...
Piracy
Piracy [fr. pirata, Lat.], the commission of those acts of robbery and violence upon the sea, which if committed upon land wold amount to felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or State, empowering them to attack others. They can, therefore, be only regarded in the light of robbers. They are, as Cicero has truly stated, the common enemies of all (communes hostes omnium); and the law of nations gives to every one the right to pursue and exterminate them without any previous declaration of war (see Piracy Jure Gentium, 1934, AC 586, where a frustrated attempt was held to be piracy by that law); but it is not allowed to kill them without trial, except in battle. Those who surrender or are taken prisoners must be brought before the proper magistrates, and dealt with according to law. By the ancient Common Law of England, piracy, if committed by a subject, was held to be a species of treason, being contrary to his natural allegiance; if by an alien, to ...
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