Terminologies Flashcards
(128 cards)
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Inquest
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Investigation of cause of death
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Subpoena
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Summon
- A document given to witness to attend the court under 61-69 CRPC
- If doesn’t attend, punishable under 174 IPC
- 6 months imprisonment/less than 2 years or fine of ₹1000
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Oath
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- Definition of oath by 51 IPC
- Hippocratic oath is taken
- Name of god not taken by atheist & expert witness
- If doesn’t take oath, punishable under 178 IPC
- No oath required for age<12
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Ad testificandum
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Common witness
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Duces tecum
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Expert witness
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Irresistible impulse test
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Free agency of will is lost due to mental disease
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Perjury
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- Definition of perjury under 191 IPC
- It is false evidence after giving oath
- Punished under 193 IPC
- Upto 7 years
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Corroborative evidence
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If a person survives after giving dying declaration, the person will have to give oral evidence in the court
157 IEA
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Plaintiff
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A person who files a case
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Guillotine
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Method of decapitation
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Actus Rea
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Criminal act
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Agarophobia
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Fear of open spaces
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McNaughten’s rule
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- Defect of reasoning due to mental disease
* Aka legal test/right or wrong test
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Abortion stick
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Causes vaginal irritation.
Length of 12 - 18 cm
Plants used - Plumbago, Ergot, Calotropis, Oleander(Nerium odorum), Lead, Aconite, Abrus precartorius, Arsenic, Strychnine.
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American Law institute test
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If adequate capacity to appreciate the criminality of the conduct is lost
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Acrophobia
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Fear of height
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Brawner’s rule
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Substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the conduct is lost
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Curren’s rule
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Capacity to conduct is lost
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Lucid interval
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Phase of sanity between 2 periods of insanity
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Testamentary capacity
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Mental capacity to make valid will
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Nyctophobia
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Fear of darkness
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Mysophobia
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Fear of dirt
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Advance directive
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An individual with a known psychiatric illness or on treatment can choose to decide the caretaker and the course of treatment according to recently amended mental health act
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Carunculae myrtiformis
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Healed tag of hymen
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Claustrophobia
Fear of closed spaces
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Kleptomania
Impulse disorder
| Steals articles
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Durham’s rule
Aka product test
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Aptae viris
Sola pith is introduced into vagina for rendering very young girls for sex
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Impotency
Not able to perform sex
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Frigidity
Not able to start/maintain sexual arousal in female
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Quoad
Seen in males.
Person is impotent for particular female.
MCC is psychogenic
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Sterility
Not able to produce children.
| Not a ground for divorce.
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Posthumous child
Child born after the death of the father
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Supposititious/Fictitious child
Pregnancy claimed by non pregnant woman for the purpose of blackmail
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Fecundation-ab-extra
Conception occurs even when semen is deposited on thigh or vulva
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Superfetation
2 ova fertilised in 2 menstrual cycles by 2 acts of coitus
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Superfecundation
2 ova fertilised in 1 menstrual cycle by 2 acts of coitus
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Psudocyesis/Spurious pregnancy
Not pregnant but subjective symptoms of pregnancy present
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Abortifacients
Substances that induce abortion:
* Ecbolics - Ergot, Quinine, Strychnine, Oestrogen
* Emmenagogues - Borax, Oestrogen, Sanguinarine, Senecia
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Diachylon
Lead product used as an abortifacient
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Utus paste
Aka interruptin.
| Combination of Potassium Iodide and Iodine
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Oedipus
Mother and son
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Electra
Father and daughter
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Pharon
Sister and brother
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Honeymoon impotence
Fear of sexual intercourse due to stress or other reasons
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Compos menti
Sound mind
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Hydrophobia
Fear of water
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Cognizable offence
Arrest without warrant
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Holographic will
Will in own handwriting
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Res Gestae
* Under 6 IEA
* Acts/involuntary exclamations made at the time of offence and are so closely connected to the main fact(heat of moment)
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Mens Rea
Criminal intention
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Incest
Sexual relationship between close blood relatives
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To check hymenal rupture
Glastier Keen Rod hymenoscope
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Smegma
Confirms absence of complete sexual intercourse in last 24 hours
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Active partner in lesbianism
Butch or Dyke
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Passive partner in Lesbianism
Femme
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Sodomy
Aka Buggery.
| Anal sex
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Sodomy between adult and child
Pedarasty
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Sodomy between adult and child names
Pedarast - Adult
| Catamite - Child
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Sin of Gomorrah
Oral sex
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Bestiality
Sex with animal punishable under 377 IPC
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Paraphilia
Sexual perversion
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Sadism
Aka Algolagnia.
| Torturing the partner.
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Masochism
Sexual satisfaction by suffering pain
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Bondage
Combination of sadism and masochism
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Dippoldism
Sexual gratification from beating student
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Undinism
Sexual gratification from the smell of urine
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Coprophilia
Sexual gratification from the smell of faeces
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Uranism
Licking or fingering female genital area
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Necrophagia
Satisfaction after eating dead body
| IPC 297
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Necrophilia
Satisfaction after having sex with dead body
| IPC 297
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Satyriasis
Excessive sexual desire in males
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Nymphomania
Excessive sexual desire in females
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Cunnilingus
Orally stimulating female genitalia
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Fellatio
Orally stimulating male genitalia
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Lust murder
Killing the person after sex
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Bobbit syndrome
Female partner amputates penis of male partner
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Transvestism
Aka Eonism.
| Wearing clothes of opposite sex and thereby sexually satisfied.
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Voyeurism
Aka Scotophilia/Peeping Tom.
| Watching naked female or microscopia (2 partners engaged in sex.
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Exhibitionism
Showing off genitalia or private parts in public places.
| IPC 294 and punishable upto 3 months.
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Flashing
Momentarily exposing body parts by quickly moving clothing
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Steaking
Running naked through a public place
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Mooning
Showing the bare buttocks by lowering pants and bending over
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Masturbation
Aka Onanism/Ipsation
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Narratophilia
Sexually satisfied by pornography study
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Scatologia
Sexual satisfaction by phone calls
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Klismaphilia
Sexual satisfaction after enema
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Troilism
3 persons involved in sexual activity
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Partialism
Fantasy about specific body part
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Pyromania
Sexual satisfaction by setting fire
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Playing with the bag pipe
Sex in armpit
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Fetishism
Generally seen in males.
| Sexual satisfaction with articles belonging to opposite sex
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Frotteurism
Rubbing private parts against female buttocks, thighs, breasts, or genital area in crowd.
Punishable under IPC 290
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Coprolalia
Sexual excitement by using obscene language
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Gerontophilia
Sexual attraction towards old person
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Pedophilia
Sexual attraction towards children
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Ecouterism
Satisfied with sound during sex
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Poroscopy
Study of skin pores
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Locard exchange principle
Crime scene investigation
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Kidnapping
Boy <16 years and girl <18 years of age taken away from parents for ransom.
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Abduction
Forcefully confining a boy >16 years and girl >18 years
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Grievous hurt
Any hurt which endangers life or which causes the victim to be in severe body pain or unable to follow ordinary pursuits for a period of 10 days
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Ewing’s postulates
Relationship between trauma and new growth
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Istanbul protocol
For examination of torture patient
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Dry submarino
Covering the face of victim with a plastic bag causing suffocation
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Planton
Forced/long standing
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Picana
Electrical torture
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Cattle pod
Picana/Electric torture on genitalia
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Falanga
Aka Bestinado.
Beating of soles.
Most common method.
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Telefono
Repeated slapping of the sides of the head of the victim(ears)
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Quirofano
Hitting on the abdomen
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Parrot Perch
Suspending from a pole placed under the knees, with the wrists bound to the ankles
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Bellary
A stick smeared with chilly paste is inserted into anal canal
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Black slave
Insertion of hot metal in anus
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Strappado
Body suspended from bar with hands tied behind on it
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Tort
Civil negligence
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Res ipsa loquitur
Facts sufficient to prove the negligence of doctor
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Novus actus interveniens
New intervening act leading to damage/loss/death
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Composite negligence
Negligence by more than one person
153
Medical mal occurrence
Doctor gave best medical attention but patient had drug reaction/idiosyncratic reaction/patient is not responding
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Vicarious liability
Respondent superior.
| Employer is responsible for the negligence made by the employee
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Res judicata
Case once decided against doctor can only be appealed not refilled.
Can be used as defence in civil cases only
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Contributory negligence
Negligence contributed by patient and doctor, defence in civil cases only and the burden of proof goes to doctor only
157
Last clear chance doctrine
Doctor is more responsible
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Avoidable consequence doctrine
Patient is more responsible
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Borrowed servant doctrine
Negligence made by employee borrowed
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Bolam test
If a doctor has acted accordingly to proper and accepted practice, he is not guilty of medical negligence or they have acted in accordance with a responsible body of opinion
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Bolitho test
It is a legal test where the court must be satisfied that body of opinion relied upon has a logical basis.
