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Confession

AC LR 467 [Police Criminal Evidence Act, 1984, s. 82(1) (UK)] Would mean incriminating statement made to the police suggesting inference of the commission of the crime and it, therefore, is confined to the evidence to be

Street offences

Street offences. For list of these, see Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (Chit. Stat., tit. 'Police'), s. 28 (applied among ss. 21-29 to urban districts by s.

Cognizance

a Magistrate may take cognizance of an offence either, (a) upon receiving a complaint, or (b) upon a police report, or (c) upon information received from a person other than a police officer or even upon his

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Snow

snow in the street to the common danger is an offence under s. 28 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, and s. 54 (17) of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839 (2 & 3 Vict.

Dog

of a third person, Baker v. Snell, (1908) 2 KB 825. Stray Dogs.--The (English) Dogs Act, 1906, em-powers police officers to seize any stray dog found in a highway or place of public resort, with the result

Riding or driving furiously

fine up to 5l. (10l. if the owner) in addition to liability to civil action. See also Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28: Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, s. 54; Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s.

Riot Damages Act, 1886

Riot Damages Act, 1886 (English) (49 &50 Vict. c. 38), providing compensation, out of the police rate, to any person sustaining damage by riot. From very early times (see the repealed acts scheduled to

Regulating

Regulating, the word 'regulating' in s. 33(1)(o) of Bombay Police Act, 1951 would include the power to prescribe that permission in writing should be taken a few days

Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace

justice of the peace may be executed anywhere in England and Wales. A warrant issued by a metropolitan police magistrate in respect of an offence committed within the metropolitan police district may be executed in England and

Unclaimed property

time, if any, he may convert it to his own use is doubtful. The practice of the Metropolitan Police Authorities appears to be that after a reasonable time and efforts to find the owner, the property will

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