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Home Dictionary Name: reasonable cause Page: 3Kidnapping for ransom
Kidnapping for ransom, Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the government or any foreign State or International inter-governmental organisation or any person to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. (Indian Penal Code, s. 364A)...
coroner
coroner [Anglo-French, recorder of crown pleas, from corone crown] : a public officer whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of death when there is reason to think the death may not be due to natural causes ...
Consuetudo ex erta causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem
Consuetudo ex erta causa rationabili usitata privat communem legem. A custom based upon a certain reasonable cause supersedes the Common Law. See CUSTOM....
Desert
Desert, to 'desert' together with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to desert the other party to a marriage without reasonable cause and without the consent, or against the will, of such party. [Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (3 of 1936), s. 2 (3)]...
mandated reporter
mandated reporter : an individual who holds a professional position (as of social worker, physician, teacher, or counselor) that requires him or her to report to the appropriate state agency cases of child abuse that he or she has reasonable cause to suspect ...
suspect
suspect [Latin suspectus, from past participle of suspicere to look up at, regard with awe, suspect, from sub- sus- up, secretly + specere to look at] : regarded or deserving to be regarded with suspicion or heightened scrutiny [səs-pekt] n : a person suspected of a crime ;also : a person apprehended for but not yet charged with an offense [sə-spekt] vt 1 : to imagine (one) to be guilty on slight evidence or without proof 2 : to imagine to exist or be probable [they had reasonable cause to abuse] ...
Demurrer
Demurrer [fr. demoror, Lat.; or demorrer, Fr., to wait or stay], a pleading which admits the facts as stated in the pleading of the opponent, and referring the law arising thereon to the judgment of the Court, waits until by such judgment the Court decides whether he is bound to answer. 'The office of a demurrer is simply to state that the plaintiff has not made a sufficient case to entitle him to relief in equity', Wood v. Midgley, (1854) 5 De GM&G 44, per Turner, L.J.In civil matters this mode of pleading is abolished by R.S. C. 1883, Ord. XXV., r. 1, but subsequent rules of the same Order allow points of law raised on the pleading of any party to be disposed of before trial by order of the Court or a judge, and pleadings to be struck out if they disclose no reasonable cause of action.In criminal prosecutions a demurrer may be resorted to, when the fact as alleged is allowed to be true, but the defendant takes exception in point of law to the sufficient of the indictment or informati...
Disfranchisement
Disfranchisement, signifies taking a franchise from a man for some reasonable cause, Symmers v. R., (1776) 2 Cowp 489 (502)Disfranchisement, is the expulsion of a corporator from membership and involves the total depriva-tion of all privileges, rights, interest, profits and advantages which the individual member enjoyed whilst a corporator, Halsbury's Laws of England (9), para 1253, p. 746.Disfranchisement, the act of depriving of a franchise, immunity, or privilege; the depriving a constituency of a right to return a member to Parliament, or a person of a right to vote at a Parliamentary or Municipal Election....
Executione judicii
Executione judicii, a writ directed to the judge of an Inferior Court to do execution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore he delays the execution, Fitz. N.B. 20....
Coroner's
Coroner's, absence for any lawful or reasonable cause means that a depty may only act when the corner is physically absent from his or her duties, for example on holiday, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis v. Inner South London Coroner, (2003) 1 WLR 371....
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