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Trial
in a judgment of acquittal or conviction of the prisoner. It means the whole of proceedings including the sentence, Janardhan v. State of Kerala, 1978 Ker LT 546. Means the examination and determination of a cause by
Imprisonment
money. There shall be excepted from the operation of the above enactment: (1) Default in payment of a penalty, or sum in the nature of a penalty, other than a penalty in respect of any contract: (2)
Discharge
398) Connotes an entirely different category of orders comprising of both simpliciter discharge order not by way of penalty as well as discharge orders by way of penalty but not involving extremely pernicious results flowing from such
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Liable
Bhikaji Nagarkar v. Union of India, (1999) 7 SCC 409. Means legally bound, subject to a for or penalty under an obligation, Concise Oxford Dictionary; see also Zunjarrao Bhikaji Nagar Kar v. Union of India, (1999) 7
Stamp duties
equitable, or (5) Settlements, the Act of 1888 created the new offence of not stamping, imposing the special penalty of ten pounds, which falls upon the obligee, vendee or transferee, lessee or intended lessee, mortgagee, or settlor,
Sunday
Sunday is not a dies non). Sunday entertainments open to the public for money are forbidden under heavy penalties by the (English) Sunday Observance Act, 1871 [as to which see Warner v. Brighton Aquarium Co., (1875) LR
Qui tam
pro domino rege, quam pro se ipso, sequitur.' As to the power of the Crown to remit these penalties, see Remission of Penalties Act, 1859, and in respect of Sunday entertainments, the Remission of Penalties Act, 1875.
Mitigation
speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel. By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties conferred on such justices by any local or private Act
Informer
APPROVER; COMMON INFORMER. Means (1) Informant (2) A private citizen who brings a penal action to recover a penalty. Under some statutes, a private citizen is required to sue the offence for a penalty before any criminal
Liquidated damages
be recovered, whether the actual damages sustained by the breach be more or less, in contradistinction to a penalty; which is only the maximum amount agreed to be paid, and is intended to be reducible in proportion
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