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Home Dictionary Name: warrant case Page: 2 Page 2 of about 52 results (0.004 seconds)Admonition
Admonition, a judicial or ecclesiastic censure or reprimand. See MONITION.Admonition, means a mild rebuke, Webster Law Dictionary, p. 19.Means a reprimand to an accused person about to be discharged, A Dictionary of Law - William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 36.Means a punishment administered by the Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal; Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn. p. 138.In the House of Commons, (U.K.), when a person who is not a member is directed to be admonished, the offender, if he is in attendance, is brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded by the Speaker, if not in attendance, he is brought to the bar the following or some later day and admonished. Practice and Procedure of Parliament - M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 261.In the Lok Sabha, as well as in Rajya Sabha, as in the House of Commons, an offender whose of...
good faith exception
good faith exception : an exception to the exclusionary rule: evidence obtained by the use of a warrant later found to be unsupported by probable cause is admissible if the investigating officers acted in reasonable reliance that the warrant was valid see also Mapp v. Ohio in the Important Cases section ...
Adjournment
Adjournment [fr. jour, Fr., a day], a putting off to another time or place, a continuation of a meeting from one day to another. An adjourned meeting is in ordinary cases a mere continuation of the original meeting and no fresh notice of it need be given, Scadding v. Lorant, (1851) 3 HLC 418. The adjournment of a trial is in the discretion of the judge. As to adjournment of trial in the High Court, see R.SC. Ord. XXXVI., r. 34; and as to adjournments in County Courts, see County Courts Act, 1934, s. 36.As to adjournment by justices on hearing charge of offence punishable on summary jurisdiction, see Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 43), s. 16.Unless the object of the context or inquiry otherwise warrants the term 'adjournment' in connection with a meeting should be applied only to the case of a meeting which has already convened and which is thereafter postponed and not to a case where a notice convening a meeting is cancelled and subsequently, a notice for holding the ...
Process
Process, includes any practice, treatment and mode of manufacture of any article. [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(o)]Is largely taken for all the proceedings in any action or prosecution, real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end; strictly, the summons by which one is cited into a Court, because it is the beginning or principal part thereof, by which the rest is directed, Britt. 138.At Common Law the three superior courts at Westminster, in personal actions, differed greatly, before the Uniformity of Process Act, 1832, in their modes of process, and even the same court admitted a considerable variety of methods, according to the circumstances of the case. The ordinary process in Chancery suits was service of a copy of the bill or claim, with an endorsed citation, which required the defendant to appear on a certain day.The process now for the commencement of all actions is the same in all the Divisions of the High Court of Justice, and i...
Incitement to Disaffection Act
Incitement to Disaffection Act, (English) 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 56). This Act provides for the preven-tion and punishment of endeavors to seduce members of His Majesty's Forces from their duty or allegiance; and it is an offence to distribute literature with such an aim among members of His Majesty's Forces; a search warrant may be granted in certain cases. The penalty on indictment may be two years or a fine up to 200l., or on summary conviction, four months' imprisonment or up to 20l., or in either case to both imprisonment and fine. Cf. Public Order Act, 1936....
Non-cognizable offence
Non-cognizable offence, means an offence for which, and 'non-cognizable case' means a case in which, a police officer has no authority to arrest without warrant. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (l)]...
guaranty
guaranty pl: -ties [Old French garantie, from garantir to guarantee, from garant warrant] 1 : a pledge to pay another's debt or to perform another's duty in case of the other's default or inadequate performance compare letter of credit 2 : guarantee 3 : guarantor 4 : something given as security : pledge 5 : the protection of a right afforded by legal provision (as in a constitution) ...
Confesso, bill taken pro
Confesso, bill taken pro, an order which the Court of Chancery made, when the defendant did not file an answer, that the plaintiff might take such a decree as the case made by his bill warranted. See now DEFAULT; PLEADING....
Experience
Experience, unless the context otherwise demands, it should be taken as experience after acquiring the minimum qualifications, required and, therefore, necessarily will have to be posterior to the acquisition of the qualification. In the case of a promotion the same interpretation may not be just or warranted. It would depend on the relevant provisions as also the particular type of experience which is required, Sheshrao Jangulji v. Bhaiyya, AIR 1950 SC 76: 1991 Supp (1) SCC 367....
Arrest
Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or to prevent the commission of a crime, or to ensure that a person charged or suspected of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue out of some Court. The law of civil arrest (see MESNE PROCESS), so far as it still exists, is regulated by the Debtors Act, 1869 (see that title),which abolished imprisonment for debt except in special cases, as where a debtor has the means to pay his debt but refuses to do so, and s. 218 of the Companies Act, 1929, as to the power to arrest an absconding contributory in case of winding up by the Court. see also CONTEMPT OF COURT. The two great statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful a...
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