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Treating. The temporary (English) Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102), s. 4, amended by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1 and 2, extended to municipal, school board, and other elections by the (English) Corrupt Practices Act, 1884, and continued from time to time by Expiring Laws Continuance Acts, enacts that every candidate who corruptly by himself, or by or with any person or otherwise, before, during, or after any parlia-mentary election, directly or indirectly gives or provides, or causes to be given or provided, or is accessory to giving or providing, or pays any ex-penses for meat, drink, entertainment, or pro-vision, for any person, in order to be elected, or for being elected, or for corruptly influencing any person to give or refrain from giving his vote, or on account of having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting, is guilty of treating, and forfeits 50l. to any informer wi...

remit

remit re·mit·ted re·mit·ting [Latin remittere to let go back, send back, give up, forgive, from re- back + mittere to let go, send] vt 1 a : to release from the guilt or penalty of b : to refrain from exacting [ a tax] c : to cancel or refrain from inflicting [ the fine] 2 : to submit or refer for consideration, judgment, decision, or action ;specif : remand 3 : to restore or consign to a former status or condition 4 : to send (money) to a person or place esp. in payment of a demand, account, or draft vi : to send money (as in payment) re·mit·ment n re·mit·ta·ble adj ...

Bribe

Bribe, a fit to any person in office or holding a position of trust, with the object of inducing him to disregard his official duty or 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 that he shall receive such a bribe, Rex v. Whitaker, (1914) 3 KB 1283. It has long been settled law that the secret profits of an agent belong to his principal: see De Busche v. Alt, (1878) 8 Ch D 286. The acceptance of a secret commission from the other side to a negotiation justifies the dismissal of the agent receiving it, Boston Deep Sea Fishery v. Ansell, (1888) 39 Ch D 339. The bribery of an agent avoids a contract: see Shipway v. Broadwood, (1899) 1 QB 369, where a veterinary surgeon employed to test horses by the purchaser had passed them after acceptance of a bribe from the seller. In such a case it is an immaterial inquiry to what extent the br...

Remit

Remit, means to pardon, to refrain from inflicting to give up. A remission of sentence does not mean acquittal, Ram Deo Chauhan v. State of Assam, AIR 2001 SC 2231. [See Constitution of India, Art. 72 & 161; Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 432, 433 & 433(A)]The word 'remit' as used in s. 432 is not a term of art. Some of the meanings of the word 'remit' are 'to pardon, to refrain from inflicting to give up'. It is therefore, no obstacle in the way of the President or Governor, as the case may be in remitting the sentence of death. A remission of sentence does not mean acquittal, Ram Deo Chauhan v. State of Assam, AIR 2001 SC 2231 (2251): (2001) 5 SCC 714. (Criminal PC, s. 432)To pardon or forgive, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1297....

absolute right

absolute right : an unqualified right : a legally enforceable right to take some action or to refrain from acting at the sole discretion of the person having the right ...

abstain

abstain : to refrain from exercising federal jurisdiction over a case : cause an abstention ...

duty

duty pl: du·ties [Anglo-French deuté indebtedness, obligation, from deu owing, due, from Old French see due ] 1 : tasks, service, or functions that arise from one's position [performing a police officer's duties] ;also : a period of being on duty see also jury duty 2 : an obligation assumed (as by contract) or imposed by law to conduct oneself in conformance with a certain standard or to act in a particular way [ of good faith] [a to warn of danger] see also public duty doctrine, special duty doctrine duty of can·dor [-kan-dər] : a duty obligating directors of a corporation to disclose all material facts known to them about a transaction when they are seeking shareholder approval duty of care : a duty to use due care toward others in order to protect them from unnecessary risk of harm duty of fair representation : a duty obligating a labor union to represent the employees in its collective bargaining unit fairly and in good faith duty of loy·al·t...

fidelity

fidelity : the quality or state of being faithful or loyal ;esp : loyalty to one's spouse in refraining from adultery and sometimes in submitting to a spouse's reasonable sexual desires ...

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