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Criminal Law Amendment Acts, 1885 to 1928 (English)

between thirteen and sixteen, are made misdemeanours, brothel-keepers are made liable to summary proceedings, and prisoners charged with sexual offences are allowed to give evidence on their own behalf. The Act is amended by the Criminal Law

Consent

of the act. A girl whose mental faculties are undeveloped, cannot be said in law, to have suffered sexual intercourses with consent, Tulshidas Kanalkar v. State of Goa, (2003) 8 SCC 590 (592). [Penal Code 1860, ss.

Common prostitute

for purposes amounting to common lewdness in return for payment, there need not be an act of ordinary sexual intercourse, R. v. De Munck, (1918) 1 KB 635.

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Child in need of care and protection

(vi) who is being or is likely to be grossly abused, tortured or exploited for the purpose of sexual abuse or illegal acts, (vii) who is found vulnerable and is likely to be inducted into drug abuse

Causing or encouraging prostitution

Causing or encouraging prostitution, where a girl has become a prostitute, or has had unlawful sexual intercourse, or has been indecently assaulted, a person is deemed to have caused or encouraged it, if he

Access and 'non-access'

Access and 'non-access', 'Access' and 'Non-access' mean the existence or non-existence of opportunities for sexual intercourse; it does not mean actual cohabitation, Gautam Kundu v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1993 SC 2295

Abusing children

no defence, and the Act of 1885, by raising from 13 to 16 the age at which unresisted sexual intercourse is a crime, has made a very material amendment in the law. A prosecution under s. 5

Shack up

to live together in a sexual relationship without being legally married

Prothallus

The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta which bears the true sexual organs the ooumlphoric generation of ferns etc

fuck

A slang term for sexual intercourse

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