Solicit - Law Dictionary Search Results
Refusal
The act of refusing denial of anything demanded solicited or offered for acceptance
At the instance of
instance of' must, in the context in which it appears mean 'at the behest of, or at the solicitation of.' The word 'instance' as a verb means 'to urge, entreat urgently, importune.' The meaning of the phrase
Prostitute
Kaushailiya, AIR 1964 SC 416: (1964) 4 SCR 1002. A woman who indiscriminately consorts with men for hire. Solicitation by prostitutes is punishable in towns by the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, s. 28 (in cases
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Barratry
of clergymen going abroad to purchase benefices from the see of Rome. Vexatious incitement to litigation, esp. by soliciting potential legal clients; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
Betting
to betting; and by the (English) Betting and Loans (Infants) Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 4), soliciting infants by circular, etc., to bet is made a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment or fine, or both. Betting
Candidate
Candidate [fr. Candidatus, Lat., clothed in white], a competitor, one who solicits or proposes himself for a place or office. The name is derived from the toga candida in which
Chimney-sweeps
c. 70). The (English) Chimney-Sweepers Act, 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 51), imposes a penalty for noisy solicitation of employment as a chimney-sweeper by ringing a bell or otherwise.
Corrupt practices
Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889 (52& 53 Vict. c. 69), by which any member of such body soliciting or receiving, and any person promising or giving any member of such body any advantage as an inducement
Emigrant runner
(see that title) or his clerk, who in any port or within five miles of it, for reward, solicits any intending emigrant on behalf of broker or owner or master of a ship, or any lodging-house keeper,
Seduction
man entices a woman of previously chaste character to have unlawful intercourse with him by means of persuasion, solicitation, promises or bribes, or other means not involving force, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1362. The inducing
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