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Obstruction of justice
the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or juror. Obstruction of justice is a crime … Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1105. Means the goal, to proscribe every wilful act of corruption, intimidation or force which tends in any way to distort or impede the administration of law either civil or criminal --
battery
of a dangerous weapon b : criminal battery committed on a protected person (as a minor or a police officer) compare simple battery in this entry NOTE: Aggravated battery is usually classified as a felony. sex·u·al battery … has not given or (as in the case of a child) is incapable of giving consent ;broadly : forced or coerced contact with the sexual parts of either the victim or the perpetrator see also rape NOTE:
Offence
682 (685). [Constitution of India, Art. 20(3)] The word 'offence' is not limited to offence against the Bombay Police Act, 1951, but include offences under Penal Code also, Virupaxappa Veerappa Kadampur v. State of Mysore, AIR 1963 … Criminal Evidence. It means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint may be made under s. 20 of the
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By-laws, or bye-laws
Piers Clauses Act, 1847, s. 83; (English) Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, ss. 126, 200; and (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, ss. 68, 71. The (English) Public Health Act, 1875, by ss. 182-6, regulated the making … district has power to enforce by-laws made by a county council which are for the time being in force in the district. Ss. 250-252 deals with the procedure for making by-laws and penalties for their breach, and
Magistrate
a governor, an executor of the laws. (2) A paid justice of the peace. See STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE; METROPOLITAN POLICE (3) An unpaid justice of the peace. See JUSTICES. The expression 'Magistrate' has been defined to mean a … any of the powers of a Magistrate under the Code of Criminal Procedure for the time being in force. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(32)]
power
: any or all of the powers delegated to the Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution police power : the power of a government to exercise reasonable control over persons and property within its jurisdiction … under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution to serve as commander in chief of the armed forces b : an ability, authority, or right usually conferred by one person upon another to do something that
Factory
to the (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (extending to laundries, and charitable and reformatory institutions), the (English) Police, Factories, etc. (Miscellaneous Pro-visions), Act, 1916, Part II., and the (English) Ed-ucation Acts, 1918, s. 14, and 1921, … mine subject to the operation of the Mines Act, 1952, or a mobile unit belonging to the armed forces of the Union, railway running shed or a hotel, restaurant or eating place. [Factories Act, 1948 (63 of
Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)
County of London [see Halsb. L.E., vol. 20, p. 393, note (h)] did not exceed in the metropolitan police district 45l. per annum; in Scotland 45l.; and elsewhere 35l.; and 'Class C' houses, of which on the … and the rules made thereunder; and also the Prevention of Eviction Act, 1924. The principal Acts now in force are the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Act, 1920; the Rent Restrictions (Notices of Increase) Act,
Habitually
SCC 14: (1984) 3 SCR 435. Means 'usually' and 'generally', Mustakmiya Jabbar-miya Shaikh v. M.M. Mehta, Commissioner of Police, (1995) 3 SCC 237. Would mean repeatedly or persistently and implies a thread of continuity stringing together similar … Habitually, a person is said to be a habitual criminal who by force of habit or inward disposition is accustomed to commit crimes. It implies commission of such crimes repeatedly or
Intoxicating liquor
premises or persons. A registra-tion fee of 1s. is payable on every grant, renewal, transfer, or removal. 9. Police Regulations.--The holders of licences are subject to very strict police regulations. Their houses must be closed at certain … and any fermented, distilled, or spirituous liquor which cannot, according to any law for the time being in force, be legally sold without an excise licence'; two licences are in every case required (except where the sale
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