Voluntarily Causing Hurt - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Voluntarily causing hurt, whoever does any act with the intention of thereby causing hurt to any person, or with the knowledge that he is likely thereby to cause hurt to any person, and does thereby cause hurt to any person, is said 'voluntarily to cause hurt'....
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
Voluntarily causing grievous hurt, whoever voluntarily causes hurt, if the hurt which he intends to cause or knows himself to be likely to cause is grievous hurt, and if the hurt which he causes is grievous hurt, is said 'voluntarily to cause grievous hurt.'Explanation.-A person is not said voluntarily to cause grievous hurt except when he both causes grievous hurt and intends or knows himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt. But he is said voluntarily to cause grievous hurt, if intending or knowing himself to be likely to cause grievous hurt, of one kind, he actually causes grievous hurt of another kind.Illustration, A, intending or knowing himself to be likely permanently to disfigure Z's face, gives Z a blow which does not permanently disfigure Z's face, but which causes Z to suffer severe bodily pain for the space of twenty days. A has voluntarily caused grievous hurt....
Voluntarily
Voluntarily, a person is said to cause an effect 'voluntarily' when he causes it by means whereby he intended to cause it, or by means which, at the time of employing those means, he knew or had reason to believe to be likely to cause it. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 39)Intentionally; without coercion, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1569.The crux of making statement voluntarily is, what is intentional, intended, unimpelled by other influences, acting on one's own will, through his own conscience. Such confessional statements are made mostly out of a thirst to speak the truth which at a given time predominates in the heart of the confessor which implies him to speak out the truth. Internal compulsion of the conscience to speak out the truth normally emerges when one is in despondency or in perilous situation when he wants to shed his cloak of guilt and nothing but disclosing the truth would dawn on him. It sometimes becomes so powerful that he is ready to face all consequences for...
Grievous hurt
Grievous hurt, Grievous hurt.-- The following kinds of hurt only are designated as 'grievous':First.--Emasculation.Secondly.--Permanent privation of the sight of either eye.Thirdly.--Permanent privation of the hearing of either ear.Fourthly.--Privation of any member or joint.Fifthly.--Destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint.Sixthly.--Permanent disfiguration of the head or face.Seventhly.--Fracture or dislocation of a bone or tooth.Eigthly.--Any hurt which endangers life or which causes the sufferer to be during the space of twenty days in severe bodily pain, or unable to follow his ordinary pursuits. (Penal Code, 1860, s. 320)Means:(a) emasculation;(b) permanent privation of the sight of either eye;(c) permanent privation of the hearing of either ear;(d) privation of any member of joint;(e) destruction or permanent impairing of the powers of any member or joint;(f) permanent disfiguration of the head or face; or(g) any hurt which endangers life. [Parsi M...
Kidnapping for ransom
Kidnapping for ransom, Whoever kidnaps or abducts any person or keeps a person in detention after such kidnapping or abduction, and threatens to cause death or hurt to such person, or by his conduct gives rise to a reasonable apprehension that such person may be put to death or hurt, or causes hurt or death to such person in order to compel the government or any foreign State or International inter-governmental organisation or any person to do or abstain from doing any act or to pay a ransom, shall be punishable with death, or imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. (Indian Penal Code, s. 364A)...
Ragging
Ragging, any disorderly conduct whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student, indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a junior student or asking the students to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment so as to adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a junior student. The cause of indulging in ragging is deriving a sadistic pleasure or showing off power, authority or superiority by the seniors over their juniors or freshers, President v. J. Mission v. Cabinet Secretary, AIR 2001 SC 2793 (2794): (2001) 6 SCC 577.Ragging, means the doing of any act which causes, or is likely to cause any physical, physiological harm or ...
Abet
Abet [from a (ad vel usque), and bedan, or beteren, to stir up or excite, Sax.], to maintain or patronise: to encourage or set on. The act is called abetment. An abettor or abettator is an instigator or setter on, one who promotes or procures a crime to be committed, Old Nat. Br. 21. See ACCESSARY.With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, shall have the same meaning as in the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3 (1)]Defined. (Abetment of a thing.-A person abets the doing of a thing, who-First.-Instigates any person to do that thing; orSecondly.-Engages with one or more other person or persons in any conspiracy for the doing of that thing, if an act or illegal omission takes place in pursuance of that conspiracy, and in order to the doing of that thing; orThirdly.-Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal o...
Voluntarily given up his membership
Voluntarily given up his membership, the words 'voluntarily given up his membership' are not synonymous with 'resignation' and have a wider connotation. A person may voluntarily give up his membership of a political party even though he has not tendered his resignation from the membership of that party. Even in the absence of a formal resignation from membership an inference can be drawn form the conduct of a member that he was voluntarily given up his membership of the political party to which he belongs, Ravi S. Naik v. Union of India, 1994 Supp (2) SCC 641: AIR 1994 SC 1558 (1565). [Constitution of India, Sch. 10, Para 2(1)(a)]...
Hurtful
Tending to impair or damage injurious mischievous occasioning loss or injury as hurtful words or conduct...
cause
cause 1 : something that brings about an effect or result [the negligent act which was the of the plaintiff's injury] NOTE: The cause of an injury must be proven in both tort and criminal cases. actual cause : cause in fact in this entry but-for cause : cause in fact in this entry cause in fact : a cause without which the result would not have occurred called also actual cause but-for cause concurrent cause : a cause that joins simultaneously with another cause to produce a result called also concurring cause compare intervening cause and superseding cause in this entry di·rect cause : proximate cause in this entry ef·fi·cient in·ter·ven·ing cause : superseding cause in this entry intervening cause 1 : an independent cause that follows another cause in time in producing the result but does not interrupt the chain of causation if foreseeable called also supervening cause compare concurrent cause and superseding cause in this entry 2 : super...
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