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Wrongful confinement
Matched in: Term Wrongful confinement
Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement
Matched in: Term Wrongful detention and wrongful confinement
Course of public justice
capable of identifying individuals or not; and that although the risk of an innocent person being subjected to wrongful arrest might be the greater in the former instance, it remained wherever the offence was descried with sufficient … Course of public justice, particularly in the criminal sphere, was not confined to the process of adjudication and included functions of the police such as the investigation of offence and
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false imprisonment
restraining another by physical force or the threat of physical force without privilege or authority see also false arrest at arrest
Malice
Com. 'Malice in common acceptance means ill-will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse': Bayley, J., in Bromage v. Prosser, (1825) 4 B&C 255; … v. Rameshwar Prasad Baidya, AIR 1980 Pat 267 (270). In the legal acceptance of the word, is not confined to personal spite against individuals, but consists in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa
De injuria sua propria absque tali causa (of his own wrong, without any such cause as alleged), more compendiously called the traverse de injuria, a species of traverse by … species of traverse by replication in pleading, now obsolete, which varied from the common form, and which, though confined to particular actions, and to a particular stage of the pleadings, was of frequent occurrence. It always tendered
Official secrets
the (English) Official Secrets Act, 1920. It is made an offence to spy in a 'prohibited place,' or wrongfully to communicate codes, plans, models, documents, or information relating to such a place, or to munitions of war, … to munitions of war, or which are used in such a place. There are special provisions as to arrest, the harbouring of spies, and the issue of search warrants. A Secretary of State may require the production
Obligation
every duty enforceable by law. [Specific Relief Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), s. 2(a)] Obligation of person making arrest to inform about the arrest, etc., to a nominated person. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974)
Guarantee
A continuing guarantee is one which extends to a series of transactions and is not exhausted by nor confined to a single credit or transaction. Whether any particular contractual promise is to be classified as a guarantee
Husband and wife
that where a wife refused to live with her husband he was not entitled to keep her in confinement in order to enforce restitution of conjugal rights, Queen v. Jackson, (1891) 1 QB 671. Consult Lush on
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