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civil
to the English common law see also the Judicial System in the back matter 4 : relating to private rights and to judicial proceedings in connection with them ;esp : relating to legal matters other than those
nuisance
prostitution is a nuisance per se] called also nuisance at law compare nuisance in fact in this entry private nuisance : something (as an activity) that constitutes an unreasonable interference in the right to the use and
Escape
Escape [fr. echapper, Fr., to fly from], a violent or private evasion out of some lawful restraint; as where a man is arrested or imprisoned, and gets away before … Escape [fr. echapper, Fr., to fly from], a violent or private evasion out of some lawful restraint; as where a man is arrested or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due
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False imprisonment
offence the law has not only decreed a punishment as a public crime, but has also given a private reparation to the party as well by removing the actual confinement for the present by habeas corpus, as
Personal effects
House Dictionary of the English Language, at page 1075, the expression is given the following meaning: Personal effects, privately owned articles consisting chiefly of clothing, toilet items, etc., for intimate use by an individual. In Black's Law
Warehouse
property, Law Lexicon of British India, 1940 Edn. Means a public warehouse appointed under s. 57 or a private warehouse licensed under s. 58. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (43)] A building used to
Rapina
gives rise to the practorian actio vi bonorium raptorum. A textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law 419 (James Crawford Ledlie trans., 3rd Edn., 1907. Means the forcible taking of another movable property with the
Camera
the judge's chamber in Serjeants' Inn, Ken. Glos. --means room, chamber, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. The judge's private room behind the court. A trial is said to take place in camera when the public are excluded
To enforce any right or supposed right
crime was committed in prosecution of the common object of the assembly. The assertion of a right of private defence within the limits prescribed by law cannot fall within the expression 'to enforce any right or supposed
Search
of a person's body, property, or other area that the person would reasonably be expected to consider as private, conducted by a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of finding evidence of crime, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
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