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Restrain

acting proceeding or advancing either by physical or moral force or by any interposing obstacle to repress or suppress to keep down to curb

Overbear

To bear down or carry down as by excess of weight power force etc to overcome to suppress

libellous and malignant slanders; and the Court, in aid of the public morals, is bound to interfere to suppress such indecencies. It is provided by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XIX., r. 27, that scandalous matter may be

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Gordon Riots

manuscripts, many from the pen of Mansfield himself. At length the military were called in and the riots suppressed, but not until an immense amount of damage had been done. Lord George Gordon was indicted for high

Indemnity

16. Indemnity Acts have also been often passed after insurrections for the relief of those engaged in their suppression; see, e.g., Phillips v. Eyre, (1869) LR 4 QB 243, in which a Jamaica Act indemnifying the governor

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

Grace, pilgrimage of

of, an insurresction which broke out in the northern counties in the reign of Henry VIII. after the suppression of the lesser monasteries, the principal object being the restoration of the Church.

Extradition

26 Vict. Geo. 5, c. 25), for currency offences. The Extradition Acts, 1870-1935, have been applied to the suppression of the White Slave traffic (see S.R. & O. 1931, No. 718; 1934, No. 310; 1934, No. 500,

Girl

Girl, S. 2(b) of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 defines 'girl' to mean a female who has not

Fixed platform

to the seabed for the purpose of exploration for, or exploitation of resources or for other economic purposes, Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against Safety of Maritime Navigation and Fixed Platforms on Continental Shelf Act, 2002, s. (2)(e).

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