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Obscene
point in the compromise between candor and shame at which the community may have arrived here and now, United States v. Kennerley, 209 F 119 (121) (S.D.N.Y. 1913). Obscene, the Indian Penal Code borrowed the word from the English
Chinese Exclusion Act
Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6 1882 then from 1892 to 1902 by act … from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6 1882 then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5 1892 By act of April 29 1902 all existing legislation on the subject was reeumlnacted and continued and
Aggression
may amount to aggression, Sarbananda Sonowal v. Union of India, (2005) 5 SCC 665; Chae Chan Ping v. United States, 130 US 581: 32 L ED 1068; Kawasaki v. Bantham SS. Co., (1938) 3 All ER 80 (KBD);
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Piracy
785. Means the unauthorised use, interception, or receipt of encoded communication especially to avoid paying fees for use, United States v. Harrell, 983 F. 2d 36 (1993). Piracy of works, an offence against the law of copy right or … cut, or wound any such person, or unlawfully do any act by which the life of such person may be endangered, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer death as a felon. If
privilege
disclosing communications if such disclosure would adversely affect the functions and decision-making process of that branch see also United States v. Nixon in the Important Cases section NOTE: Executive privilege is based on the separation of powers doctrine. In … without regard to intent or malice qualified privilege : a privilege esp. in the law of defamation that may be defeated esp. by a showing of actual malice called also conditional privilege b : an exemption from
attach
as a right [the right to counsel es only at or after the initiation of adversary judicial proceedings "United States v. Gouveia, 467 U.S. 180 (1984)"] see also jeopardy at·tach·able adj at·tach·ment n … court (as a sheriff) to seize or take control of the property compare garnish, levy NOTE: A plaintiff may attach a defendant's property as a way of obtaining jurisdiction for the purpose of bringing a lawsuit or
Arrest of judgment
the verdict because of an error appearing on the face of the record that rendered the judgment invalid, United States v. Sisson, 399 US 267, 90 S Ct, 2117, 2125 (1970) … on the face of the record which vitiated the proceedings. (See now R.S.C. Ords. XXVII. And XXXIX.) Judgment may be arrested for good cause in criminal cases, if the indictment be insufficient. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading. Means
Bastard
Christian countries, including most, if not all, of the British Dominions, and most, if not all, of the United States of America, legitimation of the children has always followed the intermarriage of the parents. The mother of a … the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (c. 29), an adoption order may be made affecting such child. See ADOPTION. A person born in wedlock … legitimation of the children has always followed the intermarriage of the parents. The mother of a bastard cannot validly contract with another person for the transfer to that person of her rights and liabilities in respect of
Judgment
allow the amendment, a judgment in terms of clause 15 of the Letters Patent, Prasant Chandra Sen v. United Commercial Bank, AIR 1982 Cal 555. An end to the suit or proceeding, the adjudication is indisputably a … Court is concerned is a 'judgment' within the meaning of s. 494 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, State of Bihar v. Ram Naresh Pandey, AIR 1957 SC 389: (1957) SCR 279. (S. 494 of Cr PC, … redress to one party, or discharge of the other, as the case may be. By the (English) C.L.P. Act,1852, s. 120, a plaintiff or defendant
Larrison rule
have reached a different conclusion without the evidence and it unfairly surprised the defendant at trial, Larrison v. United States, 24 F.2d 82. … Larrison rule, means the doctrine that a defendant may be entitled to a new trial on the basis of newly discovered evidence of false testimony by a
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