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Active supervision

Active supervision, means under the test for determining whether a private entity may claim a state-action exemption from the anti-trust laws, the right of the State to review the entity's anti-competitive acts and to … means under the test for determining whether a private entity may claim a state-action exemption from the anti-trust laws, the right of the State to review the entity's anti-competitive acts and to disapprove those acts that do

Abolition

prosecution, 25 Hen. 8, c. 21. Abolition means, 'to destroy, extinguish, abrogate or annihilate', Gurdit Singh Aulakh v. State of Punjab, (1974) 2 SCC 592: AIR 1974 SC 2058. [Rules of Business of the Govt. of. Punjab, … the state of being annulled or abrogate; the legal termination of slavery in the United States; in civil law a sovereign's remission of punishment for a crime, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.

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Organised crime

concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1. Means any continuing unlawful activity by an individual,

Giving away vessel

1 SCR 979. Whoever being legally bound by an oath or by an express provision of law to state the truth, or being bound by law to make a declaration upon any subject, makes any statement which

Assent

Assent, the word 'assent' is used purposefully indicating affirmative action of the proposal made by the State for having law repugnant to the earlier law made by Parliament. It would amount to accepting or conceding

Account stated

Account stated, An account stated is the admission of a balance due from one party to another, and that balance … is a debt; the statement of the account and the admission of the balance implies a promise in law to pay it; see Irving v. Veitch, (1837) 3 M&W 106. The account must have been stated before

Nuisance

2 (xxii)] Nuisance ordinarily means that which annoys or hurts or that which is offensive, Durga Prasad v. State, AIR 1962 Raj 92. As understood in law is broadly divided into two classes - public nuisance and

felony

law), specific property, such as that used in or gained by the crime, is subject to forfeiture. Every state has its own statutory definition of a felony. Most are in line with the federal definition of a

full faith and credit

faith and credit : the recognition and enforcement of the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of one state by another see also Article IV of the Constitution in the back matter compare choice of law, comity,

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