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Begar, It is a word of Indian origin which like many other words has found its way in the English vocabulary. It is very difficult to formulate a precise definition of the word 'begar', but there can be no doubt that it is a form of forced labour under which a person is compelled to work without receiving any remuneration. Molesworth describes 'begar' as 'labour or service extracted by a govern-ment or person in power without giving remuneration for it'. Wilson's Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms gives the following meaning of the word 'begar': 'a forced labourer. One pressed to carry burthens for individuals or the public. Under the old system, when pressed for public service, no pay was given. The begari, through still liable to be pressed for public objects, now receives pay. Forced labour for private service is prohibited.' 'Begar' may therefore be loosely described as labour or service which a person is forced to give without receiving any remuneration for it. That was the me...
Bestiality
Bestiality, that her husband has, since the solemnization of the marriage, been guilty of rape, sodomy or bestiality defined. [Special Marriage Act, s. 27(1A)]Bestiality, the crime of men with beasts, punishable under the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 61, by penal servitude for life, or for not less than ten years, but this minimum term is abolished, and power is given to inflict imprisonment for two years or less, by the (English) Penal Servitude Act, 1891.Sexual activity between a human and an animal; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the crime of engaging in sexual relations with an animal, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 49.Means the offence of buggery committed with a beast, R. v. Higson, (1984) 6 Cr App R(S) 20....
Buggery
Buggery, sodomy, punishable by the (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 61, by penal servitude for life or any term not less than ten years, but by the effect of the Penal Servitude Act, 1891, a maximum term of two years' imprisonment may in the discretion of the Court be imposed. And see BLACK MAIL, and INFAMOUS CRIME....
Burglary
Burglary [fr. burg, Sax., a house, and larron, a thief, fr. latro, Lat.]. At Common Law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling-house of another in the night-time with intent to commit a felony therein. S. 25 of the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, provides that-Means the act of breaking and entering an inhabited structure (as a house) especially at night with intent to commit a felony (as murder or larcency), the act of entering or remaining unlawfully (as after closing to the public) in a building with intent to commit a crime (as a felony). The crime of burglary was originally defined under the common law to protect people, since there were other laws, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 61.Burglary, is the common law offence of breaking and entering another's dwelling at night with the intent to commit a felony. The modern statutory offence of breaking and entering any building not just a dwelling and not only at night - with the intent to commit a felony....
Children
Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 107, as meaning, for the purposes of the Act, a person under fourteen years of age. The (English) Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 47), makes provisions for Scotland similar to those of the corresponding English Act.Registration of Birth, and Vaccination.--It is the duty, by s. 1 of the (English) Births and Deaths Registration act, 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c. 88), of the father and mother of very child born alive, and in their default of other persons (see BIRTHS), to give information to the registrar within forty two days; the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 2 and 3, provides for compulsory notification of births to the Medical Officer of Health (see BIRTHS), and the child must be vaccinat...
Deportation
Deportation, transportation; exile in to a remote part of the kingdom, with prohibition to change the place of residence. The (English) Penal Servitude Acts, 1853 (16 & 17 Vict. c. 99), and 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 3), substituted terms of penal servitude for transportation sentences for less than fourteen years, and the latter Act abolished transportation entirely. See TRANSPORTATION. Exile, an abjuration, which is a deportation for ever into a oreign land, was anciently with us a civil death. Compare the power of making an expulsion order or deportation order under Order of the Secretary of State, under the (English) Aliens Restriction Acts, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 12), and 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 92). See ALIEN, and Re Goldfarb, (1936) 52 TLR 254....
Dominant tenement
Dominant tenement, a term used in the civil law, and thence in ours, and also in Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements...
Pentonville prison
Pentonville prison, a place provided in 1842 under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 29 and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 39 for the confine-ment of male convicts under sentence of trans-portation, and later used for the confinement of those sentenced to penal servitude. Discontinued and sold under powers provided by 48 & 49 Vict. c. 72....
Pr'dium dominans
Pr'dium dominans, an estate to which a servitude is due; the ruling estate, Colquhoun's Roman Civil Law, s. 937....
Prison
Prison, a place of confinement for the safe custody of persons; a gaol, 3 Steph. Com.The erection, maintenance and regulation of prisons are provided for by several Acts of Parliament, for which see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Prison.' And for Scotland see the Prisons (Scotland) Acts, 1860 to 1909.The (English) Prison Act, 1877, transferred the management of prisons from counties and boroughs to the government, and put an end to the obligation theretofore existing on the part of the counties and boroughs to maintain prisons of their own, and the (English) Prison Act, 1898, c. 41 (for which and for extracts from the Prison Rules, 1899, under it, see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Prison'), has constituted the Prison Commissioners Directors of Convict Prisons, established three divisions of prisoners, not sentenced to penal servitude or hard labour, and restricted the authorization of corporal punishment. Both these Acts have been amended in certain respects by the (English) Criminal Justice Admi...
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