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regulatory search

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search

search 1 : an exploratory investigation (as of an area or person) by a government agent that intrudes on an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy and is conducted usually for the purpose of finding evidence of unlawful activity or guilt or to locate a person [warrantless es are invalid unless they fall within narrowly drawn exceptions "State v. Mahone, 701 P.2d 171 (1985)"] see also exigent circumstances, plain view probable cause at cause, reasonable suspicion search warrant at warrant compare seizure NOTE: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and requires that a warrant may issue only upon probable cause and that the warrant must particularly describe the place to be searched. Some searches, such as a search incident to an arrest, have been held to be valid without a warrant. administrative search : an inspection or search carried out under a regulatory or statutory scheme esp. in public or commercial premises and usually to enf...


Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority

Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority, 'Interim Insurance Regulatory Authority' means the insur-ance regulatory authority set up by the Central Government through Resolution No. 17(2)/94-Ins.- V, dated the 23rd January, 1996. [Insurance Regula-tory and Development Authority Act, 1999 (44 of 1999), s. 2(1) (e)]...


Searches

Searches, an essential feature in the acquisition of land sine registration under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, in the land or local registries of any incumbrance which is required to be registered under that Act is notice (q.v.) to the purchaser and all persons connected with the land affected [see s. 198, (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, and see (English) LAND CHARGES]. Searches are necessary, not only in the Land Registry, but at the office of the local authority for local land charges. Searches may be made personally in each of the registers under the (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, but the usual practice is to apply for and obtain an official certificate of search at the Land Registry, which covers all the registers there, viz.: (1) pending ss. or lis pendens; (2) writs and orders affecting land, such as writs of execution or orders appointing a receiver, bankruptcy petitions and receiving orders; (3) deeds of arrangement; and (4) land charges under s. 10 of the (Eng...


regulatory offense

regulatory offense : a violation of a regulation that is not part of a criminal code and that carries the punishment of a fine or imprisonment : administrative crime called also regulatory crime ...


regulatory taking

regulatory taking : an appropriation or diminution of private property rights by a governmental regulation which exceeds the government's legitimate police power (as the power to enact safety regulations) and for which the owner may seek a writ of mandamus, declaratory relief, or just compensation (as by inverse condemnation) compare physical taking, zoning NOTE: In order to determine whether a regulatory taking is effected by a regulation, a court will consider the government's interest that is being furthered by the regulation, the breadth or specificity of the regulation, and the extent of the regulation's impact on the owner's property rights and expectations. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an owner can bring an action for compensation when the taking has deprived the owner of all use of the property even temporarily. Otherwise, the owner may be entitled only to declaratory relief. ...


Search and seizure

Search and seizure, a 'search and seizure' is only temporary interference with the right to hold the property searched and the articles seized. A power of search and seizure is in any system of jurisprudence an overriding power of the State for the protection of social security and that power is necessarily regulated by law, M.P. Sharma v. Satish Chandra, AIR 1954 SC 300 (302): (1954) SCR 1077.The executive power of 'search and seizure' is a necessary concomitant of a welfare State. It tends to promote the well-being of the nation, Bishambhar Dayal Chandra Mohan v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1982 SC 33 (43). [Constitution of India, Artis. 162, 19(1)(g)(6) and 301]...


title search

title search : a search of public records to determine the condition of title to real property usually that is the subject of a transaction (as a purchase or mortgage) [the borrower was required to pay for a title search] ...


Search warrant

Search warrant, an authority requiring the officer to whom it is addressed to search a house, or other place therein specified, for stolen property therein reasonably suspected to be, Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), s. 103. See Jones v. German, (1897) 1 QB 374.A judge's written order authorising a law-enforce-ment officer to conduct a search of a specified place and to seize evidence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1353....


regulatory

regulatory 1 : of or relating to regulation 2 : making or concerned with making regulations ...


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