Wilful - Law Dictionary Search Results
Exposing Person
Exposing Person, wilfully and in any public place, with intent to insult any female, is an offence under the (English) Vagrancy
Misconduct
transgression of some established and definite rule of action, a forbidden act, a dereliction from duty, unlawful behaviour, wilful in character, improper or wrong behaviour; its synonyms are misdemeanour, misdeed, misbehaviour, delinquency, impropriety, mismanagement, offence, but not
Contempt of court
disobedience to the Court, by acting in opposition to the authority, justice and dignity thereof. It signifies a wilful disregard or disobedience of the Court's order; it also signifies such conduct as tends to bring the authority
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Marriage
7 Wm. 4, c. 85), for dissenters' marriages, declaring the marriage null and void if the parties 'knowingly wilfully intermarry in any other place than a church or chapel where banns may be lawfully published,' or 'in
Vagrants
subject to an appeal to the sessions, viz.:-(1) Every person able to maintain himself or his family, and wilfully refusing or neglecting so to do, whereby he or any of his family whom he is bound to
Cruelty
esp. a human, Black's Laws Dictionary, 7th Edn. Cruelty, to amount to cruelty , there must be such wilful treatment of the party which caused suffering in body or mind either as an actual fact or by
Civil contempt
Civil contempt, means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of
Abet
Thirdly.-Intentionally aids, by any act or illegal omission, the doing of that thing. Explanation 1.-A person who, by wilful misrepresentation, or by wilful concealment of a material fact which he is bound to disclose, voluntarily causes or
Falsification
or servant, or any person employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer, or servant, shall wilfully and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security, or account
Prevarication
to a feigned prosecution. Also, any secret abuse committed in a public office or private commission; also, the wilful concealment or misrepresentation of truth, by giving evasive or equivocating evidence.
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