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Take away, means to entice or persuade (a female under the age of 18) to leave her family for purposes of marriage, prostitution, or for illicit sex, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1466....
Abduction
Abduction: (1) The forcible or fradulent taking away of a woman. It is felony:-(a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or carnally know her or to cause her to be married or carnally known. (b) Where any person fradulently allures, takes away or detains with like intent such a woman under 21 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861. (c) Where any person by force takes away or detains any woman being of age with like intent (Ib. s. 54). It is a misdemeanour:-(a) Where any person takes away an unmarried girl under 16 out of the possession and against the will of her parent or other person having lawful charge of her (Ib. s. 55). A bona fid...
toll
toll [Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll] : a charge for the use of a transportation route or facility ;broadly : a charge for use [a water ] vb [Anglo-French tollir toller to take away, make null, bar, ultimately from Latin tollere to lift up, take away] vt 1 : to take away (as a right) 2 a : to remove the effect of [the court did not the statute of repose after the statutory period had expired] b : suspend [ the running of the statute of limitations] compare run vi : to be suspended [statute of limitations s for a period of seventy-five days following the notice "Parker v. Yen, 823 S.W.2d 359 (1991)"] n : a suspension of effect [the court extended the statute of limitations ] ...
Toll
Toll [fr. tollo, Lat.], to bar, defeat, or take away, as to 'toll an entry' is to deny and take away the right of entry. See (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27), s. 39.1. A sum of money paid for use of something esp. The consideration paid to use a public road, highway, or bridge2. A charge for a long call distance, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.[fr. tol, Sax. And Dut.; told, Dan.; toll, Wel.; taille, Fr.] has two significations:-(1) A liberty to buy and sell within the precincts of the manor, which seems to import as much as a fair or market.(2) A tribute or custom paid for passage. For its importance in railway law, see ss. 3, 86 and 92 of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, providing that:-It shall be lawful for the company to use and employ locomotive engines or other moving power, and carriages and waggons to be drawn or propelled thereby, and to carry and convey upon the railway all such passengers and goods as shall be offered to ...
Retrospective or retroactive law
Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 37A, pp. 224-225....
Restriction
Restriction, connotes that limitations imposed on a person for enjoyment of right should not be arbitrary or of an excessive nature beyond what is required in interest of public. Reasonableness of a restriction depends upon nature of right claimed, object to be achieved, means employed and limitations imposed, Syed Jassadduque Hussain v. Union of India, 1987 Kash LJ 760.Restriction. Under the Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 58, and rules 56 and 58, L.R. Rules, 1925, is an entry on the register, usually requiring notice to or consent by a named person before any further dealing is registered. The restriction may be limited to a special class of dealings and may have a continuous effect unlike a 'caution,' which can only operate once. Restrictions are frequently entered for the protection of settled land. Consult Fortescue-Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925.It is reasonable to think that the makers of the Constitution considered the word 'restriction' to be ...
Deprivation
Deprivation, taking away from a clergy-man his patronage, vicarage, or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross immorality, and the like, or for farming or trading contrary to law, after two former convictions for the same offence; or, secondly, in pursuance of divers penal statutes, which declare the benefice void, for some nonfeasance or neglect, or else some malfeasance or crime, as for simony; for neglecting to read the liturgy and articles in the church, and to declare assent to the same within two months after induction; or for using any other form of prayer than the liturgy of the Church of England; or for continued neglect, after order of the bishop, followed by sequestration, to reside on the benefice; and see as to deprivation for immorality, etc., the (English) Clergy Discipline Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 32), s. 6(1)(b), and Oxford ...
robbery
robbery pl: -ber·ies [Anglo-French robberie roberie, from Old French, from rober to take something away from a person by force] : the unlawful taking away of personal property from a person by violence or by threat of violence that causes fear : larceny from the person or immediate presence of another by violence or threat of violence and with intent to steal aggravated robbery : robbery committed with aggravating factors (as use of a weapon, infliction of bodily injury, or use of an accomplice) armed robbery : robbery committed by a person armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon simple robbery : robbery that does not involve any aggravating factors ...
Reave
To take away by violence or by stealth to snatch away to rob to despoil to bereave Archaic...
deduct
deduct : to take away (an amount) from a total ;specif : to take as a deduction [must be capitalized…rather than immediately ed "D. Q. Posin"] compare amortize ...
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