Wilfully - Law Dictionary Search Results
Recusants
Recusants, persons who wilfully absented them-selves from their parish church, and on whom penalties were imposed by various statutes (e.g., 1 Eliz.
Notice to quit
No fresh notice, however, is necessary where a tenant, after having given or been given a notice, contumaciously wilfully holds over, and becomes liable for double rent according to the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (1
Oath
to administer an oath to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the Act. And any person wilfully making such declaration false in any material particular is guilty of a misdemeanour. Promissory oaths are those required
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Outlawry
Outlawry [fr. utlagaria, Lat.], the being put out of the law for contempt in wilfully avoiding the execution of the process of the King's Court. Outlawry has long been obsolete in civil proceedings,
Perjury
as follows: If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a 'judicial proceed-ing' wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to
Pigeons
Pigeons. Unlawfully and wilfully to 'kill, wound, or take any house dove or pigeon under such circumstances as shall not amount to
Mushrooms
Mushrooms, to pick these growing in their natural state in a field is not 'wilfully or maliciously to commit damage to real or personal property' within s. 52 of the (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861; Gardner...
Neglect
Neglect, means gross, wilful, intentional, culpable or flagrant disregard of duties, Baburao Vishwanath Mathpati v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1996 Bom 227. Neglect, when a money order or a demand draft is sent to the landlord,...
Obstruction of justice
Obstruction of justice, means interference with the orderly administration of law and justice, as by giving false information to or withholding evidence from a police officer or prosecutor, or by harming or intimidating a witness or...
Prevarication
Prevarication, a collusion between an informer and a defendant, in order 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...
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