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Glandered horses

Glandered horses. By 32 & 33 Vict. c. 70, ss. 57 and 60, penalties were imposed on persons bringing glandered horses, etc., into markets, etc., and provision is made for their seizure, slaughter, and burial; but the (English) Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 74), which repeals and replaces that Act, contains no such express provision, although by s. 32, sub-s. xxxii., it gave the Privy Council power to apply its provisions to horses and glanders and farcy; and the (English) Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, s. 22, sub-ss. Xxxv. And xxxvi., appears to give a similar power to the Ministry of Agriculture by general words. See CONTAGIOUS DIESEASES (ANIMALS)....

Investigation

Investigation, s. 4(1) of the Code of Criminal Proce-dure, 1898 defines 'investigation' as to include all the proceedings under that Code for the collection of evidence conducted by the police officer or other persons other than a Magistrate in this behalf. Under the Code 'investigation consists generally of the following steps: (i) proceeding to the spot; (ii) ascertainment of the facts and circumstances of the case; (iii) discovery and arrest of the suspected offender; (iv) collection of evidence relating to the commission of the offence which may consist of (a) the examination of various persons (including the accused) and the reduction of their statements into writing, if the officer thinks fit, (b) the search of places of seizure of things considered necessary for the investigation and to be produced at the trial; and (v) formation of the opinion as to whether on the material collected there is a case to place the accused before a Magistrate for trial and if so taking the necessar...

Indecent prints or books

Indecent prints or books. The sale, or obtaining, or procuring of such prints, with intent to sell, is a misdemeanor. The (English) Obscene Publications Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 83) ('Lord Campbell's Act'), gives summary powers to metropolitan or other stipendiary magistrates, or any two justices of the peace, to issue special warrants to constables for the searching of houses, etc., in which obscene books, pictures, etc., are suspected to be kept, on complaint on oath that the complainant believes that such books are there, and that one or more of the like character have been 'sold, distributed, exhibited, lent or otherwise published,' and on the magistrate, etc., being satisfied that any of the Articles are of such a character that the publication of them would be a misdemeanor, and proper to be prosecuted as such-which must be stated [see Ex parte Bradlaugh, (1878) 3 QBD 509]-he may order the seizure and destruction of such books, etc.Publication is not excused by innocent motive...

Heriot

Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right of the lord of a manor to the best beast of the deceased tenant of a manor, which beast may be seized by the lord, although it has never been within the manor, Western v. Bailey, (1897) 1 QB 86; but if a customary freehold tenement is mortgaged, and the mort-gagor being in possession dies, the heriot is not due because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant, in order that the militi' apparatus might continue to be used for national defence by each succeeding tenant.A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to lord of the fee on tenant's death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732.The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (Engl...

Hague Convention

Hague Convention, means the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft @ signed at the Hague on the 16th day of December, 1970. [Anti-Hijacking Act, 1982 (65 of 1982), s. 2(d)]...

Distrain

Distrain, to make seizure to goods or chattels by way of distress. See DISTRESS.To take as a pledge the property of another to keep the same until the performs his obligation, or until the property is sold by the sheriff or other proper officer to satisfy the obligation: Legal seizing goods as a method of enforcing payment....

Fieri facias

Fieri facias, usually abbreviated fi. fa. (that you cause to be made), a judicial writ of execution, the most commonly used that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages in the King's Courts. It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he 'cause to be made' the sum recovered by the judgment, with interest at 4l. per cent. from the time of entered-up judgment, to be rendered to the party who sued it out. If the sheriff return nulla bona, an alias fi. fa. may issue; and upon that being returned, a pluries or testatum fi. fa. may be issued into another county. The 12th s. of the Judgments Act,1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), authorizes the sheriff to seize money, bank notes, cheques, bills of exchange, etc., of the person against whose effects the writ is sued out; but he cannot seize money or bank notes after the death of the debtor, Johnson v. Pickering, (1908) 1 KB 1.A writ of execution that directs a marshal or sheriff to seize and sell a defendants...

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