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Home Dictionary Name: secondlySecond offence
Second offence, the word 'second' in the ex-pression 'second offence' in s. 16(1) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, means second in time, and not second of the same type. The 'second offence' must be an offence under the Act although it is says that if any person does any of the acts mentioned in cls. (a) to (g) in it, he shall be punishable for the first offence with a certain penalty, for the second offence with a higher penalty and for the third a still higher penalty, Jagdish Prasad v. State of U.P., AIR 1966 SC 290 (292): (1965) 3 SCR 806. See also AIR 1960 Ker 240 (241). [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, s. 16(1)]The words 'second offence' must, mean any act which is an offence under any of the clauses in the sub-s. which has been done later in point of time after a conviction for an offence under the Act, no matter whether the acts or omissions constituting the two offences are of the same type or not, Jagdish Prasad v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1986 ...
second degree
second degree : the grade given to the second most serious forms of crimes [assault in the second degree] second-degree adj ...
Second class
Of the rank or degree below the best or highest inferior second rate as a second class house a second class passage a second class citizen...
Second rate
Of the second size rank quality or value as a second rate ship second rate cloth a second rate champion...
Second distress
Second distress. A landlord has a power at common law to make a second distress for the same rent (Woodfall on Landlord and Tenant), but a second distress for the same rent is not to be made if there was enough which might have been taken on a first distress, Hutchins v. Chambers, (1758) 1 Burr 579....
parallax second
An annual parallax of one second of an arc applied to celestial objects outside the solar system It is used to measure the distance of an astronomical object from the Earth A star which has an annual parallax of one second of an arc is considered to be one parsec 326 light years distant from the earth See parsec in the vocabulary...
Deliverance, second, writ of
Deliverance, second, writ of. The judgment of non pros. In replevin at Common Law is, that the defendant shall have a return of the goods replevied, and his costs. The plaintiff, however, is not prevented by this judgment from proceeding, for he may sue out the judicial writ of second deliverance, in execution of which the sheriff must again take the goods from the defendant and deliver them to the plaintiff, or the writ will operate in the sheriff's hand as a supersedeas of the writ de retorno habendo, if the latter writ has not as yet been executed. The proceedings upon this writ are the same as in ordinary cases of replevin, and if the defendant have judgment either upon verdict, demurrer, or of non pros., it is for a return irreplevisable, and he shall have a writ de retorno habendo, which being executed, the plaintiff cannot have any further writ of deliverance, 2 Chit. Arch. Prac. See REPLEVIN....
Second deliverance, Writ of
Second deliverance, Writ of, a judicial writ that lies, after a non suit of the plaintiff in replevin, and a retorno habendo of the cattle replevied, adjudged to him that distrained them, commanding the sheriff to replevy the same cattle again, upon security given by the plaintiff in the replevin for the re-delivery of them if the distress be justified. It is a second writ of replevin, and is practically obsolete, Fitz. N.B. 68...
Second Surcharge, Writ of
Second Surcharge, Writ of. If after admeasurement of common, upon a writ of admeasurement of pasture, the same defendant surcharged the common again, the plaintiff might have had this writ of second surcharge de secunda superoneratione, which is given by Stat. West. 2,13 Edw. 1, c. 8, rep....
Seconds
Seconds, assistants a duel. If either of the principals is killed, his adversary, and also the seconds, are all guilty of murder....
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