Suppression - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: suppressionSuppression of facts
Suppression of facts, failure to pay duty or take out a licence is not necessarily due to fraud or collusion or wilful misstatement or suppression of facts or contravention of any provision of the Act. Suppression of facts is not failure to disclose the legal consequences of a certain provision, Padmini Products v. CCE, AIR 1989 SC 2278 (2284): (1989) 4 SCC 275....
suppress
suppress 1 : to put down by authority or force 2 a : to keep secret b : to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of 3 a : to exclude (illegally obtained evidence) from use at trial [ narcotics found in violation of the right against unreasonable search and seizure] b : to fail to disclose (material evidence favorable to a defendant) in violation of due process [accused the prosecution of ing evidence] compare brady material vi : to suppress evidence sup·press·ible adj sup·pres·sion [-pre-shən] n ...
motion to suppress
motion to suppress see motion ...
suppression hearing
suppression hearing see hearing ...
Suppression
Suppression, amounts to 'removal', T. Phangjathang v. State of Manipur, AIR 1999 Gau 75....
hearing
hearing 1 : a proceeding of relative formality at which evidence and arguments may be presented on the matter at issue to be decided by a person or body having decision-making authority compare trial NOTE: The purpose of a hearing is to provide the opportunity for each side of a dispute, and esp. a person who may be deprived of his or her rights, to present its position. A hearing, along with notice, is a fundamental part of procedural due process. Hearings are also held, as for example by a legislature or an administrative agency, for the purpose of gathering information and hearing the testimony of witnesses. administrative hearing : a hearing conducted by an official (as an administrative law judge) or a body (as a review board) of an administrative agency regarding an agency action and esp. an action under dispute confirmation hearing 1 : a hearing conducted by the U.S. Senate to examine a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court NOTE: Article II of the U.S. Constitution provides ...
Metemptosis
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years The opposite to this is the proemptosis or the addition of a day every 330 years and another every 2400 years...
Civil Law
Civil Law, that rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself, more properly distinguished by the name of municipal law.The term 'civil law' is now chiefly applied to that which the Romans complied from the laws of nature and nations.The 'Roman Law'and the 'Civil Law' are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence; it is now frequently denominated 'the Roman Civil Law.'The collections of Roman Civil Law, before its reformation in the sixth century of the Christian era by the eastern Emperor Justinian, were the following:--(1) Leges Regi'. These laws were for the most part promulgated by Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Servius Tullius. To Romulus are ascribed the formation of a constitutional government, and the imposition of a fine, instead of death, for crimes; Numa Pompilius composed the laws relating to religion and divine worship, and abated the rigour of subsisting laws; and Servius Tullius, the sixth king,...
Coin
Coin [fr. coign, Fr.; cuneus, Lat., a wedge], a piece of metal stamped with certain marks and made current at a certain value. The coining of money is in all states the prerogative of the sovereign power; and, as money is the medium of commerce, it is the Crown's prerogative and monopoly, as arbiter of domestic commerce, to give it authority or make it current.By the (English) Coinage Offences Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 99), it was made a felony to counter-feit coin; to colour or gild, so as to make a resemblance to gold or silver coin; to impair or lighten coin; to have in unlawful possession filings or clippings produced by impairing or lightening coin; to buy or sell or import or utter counterfeit coin. There were numerous other provisions tending to the suppression of the manufacturing, import in and uttering of counterfeit coin. See the (English) Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5, c. 25), an Act to enable effect to be given to an International Convention...
Hospitallers
Hospitallers, the knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem wherein pilgrims were received. On the suppression of the Templar the Pope transferred their property to the Hospitallers, who were in their turn suppressed, and all their lands and goods in England given to the sovereign by 32 Hen. 8, c. 24.A military and religious order founded by catholic church in the 12th century and so called because it built a hospital at Jerusalem to care for pilgrims, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 742...
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