Torture - Law Dictionary Search Results
Third degree
a con-fession or information from a suspect or prisoner by prolonged questioning, the use of threats, or physical torture, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1489.
Question
Question, interrogatory; anything inquired. Putting to the question, i.e., torture. The word 'question' meant 'called inquestion as regards its reasonableness or practicability' and could not mean 'challenging its
Musheira
Musheira, 'Nobody will torture 'undertaking' in sec. 2(j) to mean mediation or musheira which are spiritual and aesthetic undertakings.' [Bangalore Water Supply
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Life or personal liberty
in Article 21 of the Constitution includes right to live with human dignity which would include guarantee against torture and assault by the State, Kartar Singh v. State of Punjab, (1994) 3 SCC 569 (729). (Constitution of
Keelhaul
means (1) To drag (a person) through the water under the bottom of a ship as punishment or torture. (2) To rebuke or reprimand harshly. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 873.
Plitt
An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout used in Russia
Compelled testimony
Compelled testimony, 'compelled testimony' as evidence procured not merely by physical threats or violence but by psychic torture, atmospheric pressure, environmental coercion, tiring interrogative prolixity, overbearing and intimidatory methods and the like - not legal penalty
Anacrisis
[fr. 'v'kpiois, Gk.], an investigation of truth, intrerrogation of witnesses, and inquiry made into any fact, especially by torture, Ibid.; Civil Law.
Procrustean
Of or pertaining to Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him producing conformity by violent means as the Procrustean treatment a Procrustean limit See Procrustes
Pinnywinkles
An instrument of torture consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed and fastened with pegs
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