Unlawful Assembly - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Unlawful assembly, an assembly of five or more persons is designated an 'unlawful assembly', if the common object of the persons composing that assembly is:First.-To overawe by criminal force, or show of criminal force, the Central or any State Govern-ment or Parliament or the Legislature of any State, or any public servant in the exercise of the lawful power of such public servant; orSecond.-To resist the execution of any law, or of any legal process; orThird.-To commit any mischief of criminal trespass, or other offence; orFourth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to any person to take or obtain possession of any property, or to deprive any person of the enjoyment of a right of way, or of the use of water or other incorporeal right of which he is in possession or enjoyment, or to enforce any right of supposed right; orFifth.-By means of criminal force, or show of criminal force, to compel any person to do what he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do what ...
unlawful assembly
unlawful assembly : the offense of assembling with a certain minimum number of others for the purpose of engaging in a riot or other unlawful conduct that threatens public safety, peace, or order ;also : a group so assembled ...
assembly
assembly pl: -blies 1 a : a company of persons collected together in one place usually for some common purpose b cap : a legislative body esp. that makes up the lower house of a legislature see also general assembly, legislative assembly 2 : the act of coming together : the condition of being assembled see also unlawful assembly ...
To enforce any right or supposed right
To enforce any right or supposed right, in order to attract the provisions of s. 149 the prosecution must establish that there was an unlawful assembly and that the crime was committed in prosecution of the common object of the assembly. The assertion of a right of private defence within the limits prescribed by law cannot fall within the expression 'to enforce any right or supposed right' in the fourth clause of s. 141. The assembly could not be designated as an unlawful assembly if its object was to defend property by the use of force within the limits prescribed by law, State of Bihar v. Nathu Pandey, AIR 1970 SC 27: (1969) 2 SCC 207: (1970) 1 SCR 358....
Rout
Rout, a disturbance of the peace by persons assembl-ing with an intention to do a thing which, if it be executed, will make them rioters, and actually making a motion towards its execution, 4 Steph. Com.The offense that occurs when an unlawful assembly makes some move toward the accomplishment of its participants' common purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1330.Means the offence that occurs when an unlawful assembly makes some move towards the accomplishment of its participants' common purpose, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1330....
Assembly, Unlawful
Assembly, Unlawful, a meeting of three or more persons to do an unlawful Act, 3 Inst. 9; 1 Hawk. 155. See OFFENCE; RIOT; ROUT...
Sedition
Sedition, an offence against the Crown and govern-ment, not capital, and not amounting to treason. It cannot be tried at Quarter Sessions. See the (English) Unlawful Assemblies Act, 1799 (39 Geo. 3, c. 79); the (English) Seditious Meetings Act, 1817 (57 Geo. 3, c. 19), jointly called the '(English) Corresponding Societies Acts,' and much resembl-ing one another. Registered friendly societies are exempted by s. 32 of the (English) Friendly Societies Acts, 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, s. 23, which has no parallel in the Act of 1799, political meetings of more than fifty persons within one mile of Westminster Hall, except for parliamentary election purposes, are declared unlawful on any day on which Parliament is sitting. By s. 25 of the Act of 1817, and s. 2 of the Act of 1799, every society or club, the members of...
Common Intention, common object
Common Intention, common object, under s. 34 when a criminal act is done by several persons in furtherance of the common intention of all, each of such persons is liable for that act in the same manner as if it were done by him alone. The words 'in furtherance of the common intention of all' are a most essential part of s. 34 of the Indian Penal Code. It is common intention to commit the crime actually committed. This common intention is anterior in time to the commission of the crime. Common intention means a pre-arranged plan. On the other hand, s. 149 of the Indian Penal Code speaks of an offence being committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, Devilal v. State of Rajasthan, (1971) 3 SCC 471: AIR 1971 SC 1444 (1446). [Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), ss. 34 and 149]...
terror
terror : an intense fear of physical injury or death [inflict by forced entry or unlawful assembly] ;also : the infliction of such fear [an act of ] ...
habeas corpus
habeas corpus [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)] : any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court ;esp : habeas corpus ad subjiciendum in this entry [the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it "U.S. Constitution art. I"] habeas corpus ad fa·ci·en·dum et re·ci·pi·en·dum [-ad-fa-sē-en-dəm-et-ri-si-pē-en-dəm, -fa-shē-en-; -Ä d-fÄ -kē-en-dm-et-rā-kē-pē-en-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for doing and receiving] : habeas corpus cum causa in this entry habeas corpus ad pro·se·quen·dum [-ad-prÄ -si-kwen-dəm, -Ä d-prō-sā-kwen-dm] [New Latin, literally, you should have the body for prosecuting] : a writ for removing a prisoner for trial i...
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