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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...
Commissioners for Oaths
Commissioners for Oaths. Masters extraordinary in Chancery acted in very early times as commissioners to administer oaths to persons making affidavits (see that title) before them concerning Chancery suits, and the judges of the Common Law courts were authorized, under 29 Car. 2, c. 5, by commission to empower 'what and as many persons as they should think fit and necessary' to take affidavits for one shilling fee concerning Common Law actions. The Masters in Chancery were succeeded by solicitors under 16 & 17 Vict. c. 78, appointed by the Lord Chancellor, the fee being one shilling and sixpence.The (English) Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 10), which amends and consolidates twenty-four enactments on the subject, enacts by s. 1 that the Lord Chancellor may, from time to time, by commission signed by him, appoint practising solicitors or other fit and proper persons to be commissioners for oaths; with power, in England or elsewhere, to administer any oath or take any...
Institutions
Institutions. It was the object of Justinian to comprise in his Code and Digest, or Pandects, a complete body of law. But these works were not adapted to the purposes of elementary instruction, and the writings of the ancient jurists were no longer allowed to have any authority, except so far as they had been incorporated in the digest, Smith's Dict. of Antiq. It was therefore necessary to prepare an elementary treatise, and the Institutes were published a month before the Pandects, A.D. 533, and designed as an elementary introduction to legal study (legum cunabula). The work was divided into four books, subdivided into titles.The Institutes are the elements of the Roman Law, and were composed at the command of the Emperor Justinian, by Trebonian, Dorotheus, and The ophilus, who took them from the writings of the ancient lawyers, and chiefly from those of Gaius especially from his Institutes and his books called Aureorum (i.e., of important matters).The Institutes are divided into four...
Undertake
Undertake, means to take on oneself; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; set about; attempt; as, to undertake a task or a journey; and specifically, to take upon oneself solemnly or expressly. To lay oneself under obligation or to enter into stipula-tion; to perform or to execute; to covenant; to contract. Hence, to guarantee; be surety for; promise; to accept or take over as a charge; to accept or to accept responsibility for the care of. To engage to look after or attend to, as to undertake a patient or guest. To endeavour to perform or try; to promise, engage, agree or assume an obligation, Black's Law Dictionary, 5th Edn., see also Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa, (2001) 4 SCC 661....
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
Export
Export, includes the taking or sending out of goods by land, sea or air, on consignment or by way of sale, lease, hire-purchase, or under any other arrangement by whatever name called, and in the case of software, also includes transmission through any electronic media. [The Foreign Exchange Management (Export of Goods and Services Regulations, 2000, s. 2 (iv)]Means--(i) taking goods, or providing services, out of India, from a Special Economic Zone, by land, sea or air or by any other mode, whether physical or otherwise; or(ii) supplying goods, or providing services, from the Domestic Tariff Area to a Unit or Developer; or(iii) supplying goods, or providing services, from one unit to another unit or Developer, in the same or different Special Economic Zones, Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, sec. 2(m).With the grammatical variations and cognate expression, means taking out of India of a place outside India, Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regula...
Replevin
Replevin, a personal action to recover possession in specie of goods unlawfully taken (generally, but not exclusively, applicable to the taking of goods distrained for rent), by contesting the validity of the seizure, whereas, if the owner prefer to have damages instead, the validity may be contested by action of trespass or unlawful distress. The word means a re-delivery to the owner of the pledge or thing taken in distress. It is re-delivered to him by the registrar of the county court of the district within which it was taken, upon his undertaking and giving security to try the validity of the distress or taking, in an action of replevin to be forthwith commenced by him against the distrainer, and prosecuted with effect and without delay either in the County Court or in the High Court, and to restore it if the right be adjudged against him; after which the distrainer may keep it in distraint subject to the law of distress.It is a general rule that whoever brings replevin ought to ha...
Poaching
Poaching, taking name by trespass. Also taking fish, e.g., salmon and trout by illegal methods (see infra).Trespassing in the daytime in pursuit of 'game'--i.e., hares, pheasants, partridges, grouse, heath or moor game, black game, or bustards--or woodcock, snipe, quails, landrail, or rabbits, is punishable summarily by fine up to 2l., and in case of a trespass by five or more, up to 5l.; the leave of the occupier being no defence if the landlord or other person have by reservation the right to kill the game. [See (English) GAME ACT, 1831, ss. 2, 30]Unlawfully taking in the night, i.e., between the expiration of the first hour after sunset and the commencement of the first hour before sunrise, 'game,' as above defined, is punishable summarily by imprisonment with hard labour; and any persons, to the number of three or more, by night unlawfully entering lands, for the purpose of taking or destroying any 'game,' as above defined, or rabbits (any of them being armed with any gun or other ...
Thistle
Thistle, it was the custom within the manor of Halton, in Chester, that if, in driving beasts over a common, the driver permitted them to graze or take but a thistle, he should pay a halfpenny a-piece, called a 'thistle-take,' to the lord of the fee. And at Fiskerton, in Notinghamshire, by ancient custom, if a native or a cottager killed a swine above a year old, he paid to the lord a penny, which purchase of leave to kill a hog was also called thistle-take.It has been held that an occupier of land has no duty towards his neighbour to prevent thistles from seeding, and is not liable to his neighbour for damage by the seeds being blown on to his neighbour's land, Giles v. Walker, (1890) 24 QBD 656...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
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