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Collusion

s. 178, replacing the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (c. 85), ss. 30 and 31; and a collusive penal action is no bar to a bona fide penal action by virtue of 4 Hen. 7, c. 20; Chitty's … (c. 85), ss. 30 and 31; and a collusive penal action is no bar to a bona fide penal action by virtue of 4 Hen. 7, c. 20; Chitty's Statute, tit. 'Penal Action'; and see Girdlestone v. Brighton

Penalty

v. Cellulose Acetate Co. Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 393, and 1933 AC 20. 3. A sum recoverable by action from a person infringing a statute. See PENAL STATUTES. 4. A sum, also called a fine, recoverable in … Penalty, is a liability under the taxing statute, Khemka & Co. v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1549.

Common informer

Sometimes, too, as by the (English) Larceny (Advertisements) Act, 1870, the informers have lost the benefit of their penal action by a retrospective enactment that proceedings therein be stayed in payment of their costs out of pocket. See

Instigate

Instigate, referred. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 107, Expl. I) Instigation is to good, urge forward, provoke, incite or encourage to do 'an … also (2003) 12 SCC 469 The word 'instigate' denotes incitement or urging to do some drastic or unadvisable action or to stimulate or incite. Presence of mens rea, therefore, is the necessary concomitant of instigation. It is

Action

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Injury

or property, for which an action lies at law. Injury has been defined in s. 44 of the Penal Code as denoting 'any harm whatever illegally caused to any person, in body mind, reputation or property, S.

Qui tam

Qui tam (who as well), a popular action (i.e. one which any one may bring) on a penal statute (q.v.) which is partly at the suit of the King and partly at that of an informer;

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