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Vagrants

of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, after having been con-victed as an idle and disorderly person. (2) Every person pretending to tell fortunes, or using any craft or device, by palmistry, or otherwise [this includes 'Spiritualism'-Monck v. Hilton,

Not proceeding from true source

proceeding from true source, 'not proceeding from true source' only mean that the thing is not what it pretends to be, which only means that it is not genuine or legitimate, Chaitanya Kumar Adatiya v. Sushila Dixit,

Solicitor

46 for prosecuting in a summary way any person not having in force a practising certificate who wilfully pretends to be a solicitor (see 1934 Act, infra). A solicitor cannot sue for (although he may set off)

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Medical practitioners

College from suing; and such bye-law has been passed. It is an offence for any person falsely to pretend that he holds a medical or surgical qualification (s. 40, Act of 1858), but it is not an

Act of State

not always mean a sovereign act against an alien which is neither grounded in law nor does it pretend to be so. The term means more than that because it has many meanings, Roman Cathelic Mission v.

Skepticize

To doubt to pretend to doubt of everything

Reformalize

To affect reformation to pretend to correctness

Pretex

To frame to devise to disguise or excuse hence to pretend to declare falsely

Feign

give a mental existence to as to something not real or actual to imagine to invent hence to pretend to form and relate as if true

Episcopus puerorum

some lay person should plait his hair and put on the garments of a bishop, and in them pretend to exercise episcopal jurisdiction, and do several ludicrous actions, for which reason he was called bishop of the

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