{"id":241943,"date":"1884-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1884-07-24T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-queen-empress-vs-palani-and-ors-on-25-july-1884"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:32:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:02:02","slug":"the-queen-empress-vs-palani-and-ors-on-25-july-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-queen-empress-vs-palani-and-ors-on-25-july-1884","title":{"rendered":"The Queen-Empress vs Palani And Ors. on 25 July, 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">The Queen-Empress vs Palani And Ors. on 25 July, 1884<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: (1883) ILR 7 Mad 537<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: K Charles Turner<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: C A Turner, Kt., Hutchins<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>Charles A. Turner, Kt., C.J.<\/p>\n<p>1. In our judgment the law does not require intention to be proved as part of the offence, but, in order to prevent indiscriminate prosecutions, it confines the power of instituting prosecutions to the Collector, and instructs him to exercise it only when it appears to him the offence had been committed with an intention to evade payment of the proper duty.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. He is not required to make a formal inquiry or to record a proceeding when he gives a sanction in writing for a prosecution. It is to be presumed he has governed his decision by the rule prescribed. The order of the Appellate Court in the case of the maker of the note must be reversed, and a rehearing of the appeal ordered. The acquittal of the first accused is affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court The Queen-Empress vs Palani And Ors. on 25 July, 1884 Equivalent citations: (1883) ILR 7 Mad 537 Author: K Charles Turner Bench: C A Turner, Kt., Hutchins JUDGMENT Charles A. 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In our judgment the law does not require intention to be proved as part of the offence, but, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Queen-Empress vs Palani And Ors. on 25 July, 1884 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/the-queen-empress-vs-palani-and-ors-on-25-july-1884\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Queen-Empress vs Palani And Ors. on 25 July, 1884 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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