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Land grabbing

AIR 2004 SC 3661. [Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 1982 (12 of 1982), s. 2(e)] Means in order to constitute an act of land grabbing, an attempt to dispossess must be followed by actual dispossession which

Firearms

Admiralty, Army or Air Council; see s. 6 of the 1920 Act, which Act also makes many more prohibitions and restrictions. The (English) Firearms and Imitation Firearms (Criminal Uses) Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c.

Magna Carta

subjects:-Chapter three related to the wardship of an infant heir of an earl, baron, or knight; chapter four prohibited the guardian from wasting the lands of his ward, and from destroying his tenants, a plain indication of

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Staying proceedings

Act, 1875, s. 24 (5), the courts had power to stay proceedings in cases where an injunction or prohibition could formerly have been obtained, but in which such course, by the consolidation of the superior courts, is

Writ

actions see EXECUTION, ELEGIT, FIERI FACIAS, POSSESSION, and VENDITIONI EXPONAS. For writs not in actions, see CERTIORARI, MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, and QUO WARRANTO. A court's written order, in the name of a state or other competent legal authority,

Tobacco

by penal action. See 12 Car. 2, c. 34 (the preamble of which shows the origin of the prohibition to have been the protection and maintenance of the colonies and plantations in America, and of the commerce

Technology

Technology, means any information (including information embodied in software) other than information in the public domain, that is capable of being used in--(i) the development, production or use of any goods or software; (ii) the development...

Embargo

Embargo [fr. embargar, Sp.], a prohibition to pass; a stop, arrest, or detention of ships; a prohibition imposed in time of war by a

Regulate

Regulate, does not include 'prohibition', Asoke Chowdhury v. State of West Bengal, AIR 2007 Cal 176. Regulate, includes prohibition, K. Ramanathan v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1985 SC 660. Regulate, is derived from the latin word

Quod hoc

Quod hoc, means as to this; with respect to this; so far as this is concerned. A prohibition quoad hoc is a prohibition of certain things among others, such as matters brought in an ecclesiastical court

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