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Sedition
and constitution of the United Kingdom as bylaw established or either House of Parliament,' or to excite the public 'to attempt the alteration of any matter in Church or State as bylaw established, otherwise than by lawful … society or club, the members of which subscribe to any test or declaration not required or authorized by law, is declared to be an illegal society, and by s. 2 of the Act of 1799 the same
Public prosecutor
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Mandamus
office, and which the court holds to be consonant to right and justice. It is used principally for public purposes, and to enforce performance of public duties. It enforces, however, some private rights when they are withheld … it would lie to any person who is under a duty imposed by statue or by the common law to do a particular act. In order to obtain a writ or order in the nature of mandamus,
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International Law
International Law. I. Public Law: The law of nations, strictly so called, was in a great measure unknown to antiquity, and is the
Bribe
betray his trust for the benefit of the giver. It is a misdemeanour at common law for a public officer, whether judicial or ministerial, to accept a bribe, or for such an officer to conspire with others
Institutions
judges in the several suits brought before them. And Title XVIII., the last, shows what were the Roman public prosecutions, which every one had free liberty to institute, and of which the penalties were established by the … was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient
Audit
c. 51), s. 230], especially where the party whose accounts are audited has given his service gratuitously. The public accounts are audited under the (English) Exchequer and Audit Act, 1866 (repealing twenty-two prior Acts). The most important … most important of the many enactments as to audit of accounts of local authorities were the (English) Poor Law Audit Act, 1848; (English) District Auditors Act,1879; (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, s. 25; and the (English) Public
libel
false published statement that injures an individual's reputation (as in business) or otherwise exposes him or her to public contempt b : the publication of such a libel c : the crime or tort of publishing a … v. Sullivan in the Important Cases section compare defamation, slander NOTE: Although libel is defined under state case law or statute, the U.S. Supreme Court has enumerated some First Amendment protections that apply to matters of public
Graveyard
the Mahomedan Law the graveyards may be of two kinds - a family or private graveyard and a public graveyard. A graveyard is a private one which is confined only to burial of corpses of the founder,
Public trustee
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