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suspicion : the act or an instance of suspecting something : a mental state usually short of belief in which one entertains a notion that something is wrong or that a fact exists without proof or on slight evidence see also reasonable suspicion sus·pi·cion·less adj ...
Jurisdiction of suspicion
Jurisdiction of suspicion, Provision for preventive detention, in itself, is a departure from ordinary norms. It is generally resorted to either in times of war or apprehended internal disorders and disturbances of a serious nature. Its object is to prevent a greater danger to national security and integrity than any claim which could be based upon a right, moral or legal, to individual liberty. It has been aptly described as a 'jurisdiction of suspicion', Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207 (1295): (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172....
reasonable suspicion
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cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
seizure
seizure : the act, fact, or process of seizing: as a : the seizing of property that involves meaningful interference with a person's possessory interest in it [ of evidence found in plain view] see also plain view b : the seizing of a person (as for arrest or investigation) see also arrest, stop compare search NOTE: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right against unreasonable searches and seizures. It requires that a warrant may issue only upon probable cause, and that the warrant particularly describe the persons or things to be seized. Not all seizures, however, require a warrant. A seizure that constitutes an arrest requires probable cause to be reasonable, and a stop usually requires reasonable suspicion of the particular person or persons stopped, although stops like those at drunk driving checkpoints may be justified by a plan that places explicit and neutral limitations on the conduct of police officers with no requirement of individualized suspi...
warrant
warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...
Arrest
Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or to prevent the commission of a crime, or to ensure that a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act, 1869 (see that title),which abolished imprisonment for debt except in special cases, as where a debtor has the means to pay his debt but refuses to do so, and s. 218 of the Companies Act, 1929, as to the power to arrest an absconding contributory in case of winding up by the Court. see also CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful a...
Blind eye knowledge
Blind eye knowledge, requires a suspicion of a truth about which one does not want to know and which one refuses to investigate, Manifest Shipping Company Ltd. v. Uni-Polaris Shipping Company Ltd., (2001) 2 WLR 170 (HL): (2001) UKHL 1 (HL).Blind-eye knowledge, requires a conscious reason for blinding the eye. There must be at least a suspicion of a truth about which the court does not want to know and which one refuses to investigate, Manifest Shipping Co. Ltd. v. Uni-polaris Shipping Co. Ltd., (2001) 2 WLR 170 (HL): (2001) UKHL 1....
Odio et atia
Odio et atia, a writ anciently called breve de bono etmalo, addressed to the sheriff to inquire whether a man committed to prison upon suspicion of murder were committed on just cause of suspicion, or only upon malice and ill-will; and if, upon the inquisition, it was found that he was not guilty, then there issued another writ to the sheriff to bail him, Reg. Brev. 133. But the practice now is to issue a habeas corpus...
Swearing
Suspicion, denotes the initial stage for believing the existence of a certain thing or an alleged fact is suspicion. After suspecting the existence of a thing, condition or a statement of fact, information is collected and then examined and then a conclusion is arrived at on the basis of that information that the thing, condition or statement or a fact exists, K. Munivelu v. Government of India, AIR 1972 AP 318: (1972) 1 Andh WR 411....
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