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Reprimand, a formal and public stigmatization of an offence addressed by a judge to a convicted offender, or by an official superior to an inferior, generally in substitution for any other punishment: see, e.g., that enjoined for the first offence against the Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880 (see BIRDS), in the case of a sparrow or other not scheduled bird, and that enjoined in the case of officers convicted by Court-martial, which may be either 'reprimand,' or 'severe reprimand,' by s. 44 (g) of the Army Act.Reprimand, in British Parliament, when either of the House orders a person (other than a Member) to be reprimanded the Speaker, if the person is in attendance in the lobby, directs the Serjeant-at-Arms to bring him to the bar to reprimand that person. If a person, who is to be reprimanded, is not in attendance, the House orders the Serjeant-at-Arms to take him into custody and bring him to the bar on a certain day to be reprimanded, Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham and S.C. H...
Reprimander
One who reprimands...
Admonition
Admonition, a judicial or ecclesiastic censure or reprimand. See MONITION.Admonition, means a mild rebuke, Webster Law Dictionary, p. 19.Means a reprimand to an accused person about to be discharged, A Dictionary of Law - William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 36.Means a punishment administered by the Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal; Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn. p. 138.In the House of Commons, (U.K.), when a person who is not a member is directed to be admonished, the offender, if he is in attendance, is brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded by the Speaker, if not in attendance, he is brought to the bar the following or some later day and admonished. Practice and Procedure of Parliament - M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 261.In the Lok Sabha, as well as in Rajya Sabha, as in the House of Commons, an offender whose of...
Bar of the House
Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consis...
Censure
Censure [fr. Census, Lat.] a custom observed in certain manors in Devon and Corn wall, where all persons above the aged sixteen years are cited to swear fealty to the lord, and to pay 11d. per poll, and 1d. per annum ever after; these thus sworn are called censores. Surv. of the Duch. of Corn. Also a judgment which condemns some book, person, or action; more particularly a reprimand from a superior.An official reprimand or condemnation, harsh criticism, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Is only a recorded warning and does not constitute punishment and, therefore, the directions contained in the circular in relation to imposition of minor penalty would not apply and the tribunal was justified in giving the directions for opening of the sealed cover and for giving effect to the recommendations of the DPC, State of Madhya Pradesh v. I.A. Qureshi, (1998) 9 SCC 261....
Reprehend
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining checking or preventing to make charge of fault against to disapprove of to chide to blame to censure...
Reprimand
Severe or formal reproof reprehension private or public...
Sneap
To check to reprimand to rebuke to chide...
Sneb
To reprimand to sneap...
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
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