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force
force 1 : a cause of motion, activity, or change intervening force : a force that acts after another's negligent act or omission has occurred and that causes injury to another : intervening cause at cause irresistible force : an unforeseeable event esp. that prevents performance of an obligation under a contract : force majeure 2 : a body of persons available for a particular end [the labor ] ;specif : police force usually used with the 3 : violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon or against a person or thing constructive force : the use of threats or intimidation for the purpose of gaining control over or preventing resistance from another dead·ly force : force that is intended to cause or that carries a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury compare nondeadly force in this entry NOTE: As a general rule, deadly force may be used without incurring criminal or tort liability when one reasonably believes that one's life or safety is in da...
Unlawful assembly
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 ...
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...
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption and detention, and to do, submit to, and receive whatever the judge or Court shall consider in that behalf. The writ is applied for either by motion to a Court or application to a judge, supported by an affidavit of the facts. (See (English) Crown Office Rules, 1906, rr. 216-230.) If a probable ground be shown that the party is imprisoned without a cause and has a right to be delivered, this writ ought of right to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the Privy Council, or any other power. Therefore there is an absolute necessity of express-ing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made, that ...
Unlawful activity, unlawful association
Unlawful activity, unlawful association, clauses (f) and (g) of s. 2 contain definition of 'unlawful activity' and 'unlawful association' respectively. An 'unlawful activity', defined in clause (f), means 'any action taken' of the kind specified therein and having the consequence mentioned. In other words, 'any action taken' by such individual or association constituting an 'unlawful activity' must have the potential specified in the definition, Jamaat-E-Islami v. Union of India, (1995) 2 SCC 428 (441). [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, s. 3(1)]...
Unlawful association
Unlawful association, means any association:(i) which has for its object any unlawful activity, or which encourages or aids person to undertake any unlawful activity, or of which the members undertake such activity; or(ii) which has for its object any activity which is punishable under s. 153A or s. 153B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860), or which encourages or aids persons to undertake any such activity, or of which the members undertake any such activity. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(g)]Unlawful association, see Unlawful Activities Pre-vention Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s 2(p)]...
Unlawful activity
Unlawful activity, in relation to an individual or association, means any action taken by such individual or association (whether by committing an act or by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representation or otherwise),-(i) which is intended, or supports any claim, to bring about, on any ground whatsoever, the cession of a part of the territory of India or the secession of a part of the territory of India from the Union, or which incites any individual or group of indivi-duals to bring about such cession or secession;(ii) which disclaims, questions, disrupts or is intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India. [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(f)]Unlawful activity [see Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (37 of 1967), s. 2(o)]...
unlawful detainer
unlawful detainer 1 : the act of wrongfully remaining in possession of property (as after expiration of a lease) 2 : an action intended to remedy unlawful detainer by restoring possession of property to its owner called also unlawful detainer action ...
Unlawful
Unlawful, means without the authority of the Central Government and the expression 'unlawfully' shall be construed accordingly. [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005, s. 4(o)]...
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