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Public mischief
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Mischief
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Acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State
State, The expression 'acting in any manner prejudicial to the security of the State or the maintenance of public order' would, inter alia, include the commission on the offence of mischief by fire on any property of
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Charitable uses and trusts
were prohibited by Magna Charta and other whole-some laws as prejudicial to the common utility, and that such public mischief had greatly increased by many large and improvident dispositions, made by languishing or dying persons to charitable uses,
Judge
Such is the de facto doctrine, born of necessity and public policy to prevent needless confusion and endless mischief, Gokaraju Rangaraju v. State of Andhra Pradesh, AIR 1981 SC 1473: (1981) 3 SCC 132. Judge means the … the Jurisdiction in Rating Act,1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 11), and also by s. 304 of the Public Health Act, 1936. See INTEREST. The following are the chief maxims relating to judges:- Judex damnatur cum nocens
Course of public justice
Matched in: Term Course of public justice
Unlawful assembly
criminal force, the Central or any State Govern-ment or Parliament or the Legislature of any State, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant; or Second.-To resist the execution of … servant; or Second.-To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; or Third.-To commit any mischief of criminal trespass, or other offence; or Fourth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to
Injunction
way of defence thereto, it being provided, however, that the court may direct a 'stay of proceedings.' Amongst public nuisances, restrainable either upon information or at suit of a private person immediately grieved by them, may be … from its nature is not susceptible of being compensated by damages, or as from its continuance or permanent mischief must occasion a constantly recurring grievance which cannot be otherwise adequately prevented than by an injunction; as where
Preamble
Preamble, in the British Parliament, a Preamble is not often incorporated now in a public Bill, however, it appears in a Bill of great Constitutional importance or in a Bill to give effect … the beginning of an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of its framers, and the mischiefs to be remedied; a good mean to find out the meaning of the statute, and as it were
Act of Parliament
Roy remercie ses bons sujets, acceple leur benevolence et ainsi le veult.' Acts of Parliament are either (1) public; (2) local or special; (3) private or personal. Public Acts are those which affect the whole realm or … was made, and not according to the mere letter; (3) these points must be considered'the old law, the mischief, and the remedy; (4) remedial statutes are to be more liberally, and penal more strictly, construed; (5) in
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