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obstructing
(encz) | obstructing,blokování n: Zdeněk Brož |
obstructing
(encz) | obstructing,překážení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Obstructing
(gcide) | Obstruct \Ob*struct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obstructed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Obstructing.] [L. obstructus, p. p. of obstruere
to build up before or against, to obstruct; ob (see Ob-) +
struere to pile up. See Structure.]
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1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to
place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or
impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to
obstruct a street; to obstruct the channels of the body.
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'T is the obstructed paths of sound shall clear.
--Pope.
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2. To be, or come, in the way of; to hinder from passing; to
stop; to impede; to retard; as, the bar in the harbor
obstructs the passage of ships; clouds obstruct the light
of the sun; unwise rules obstruct legislation. "Th'
impatience of obstructed love." --Johnson.
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Syn: To bar; barricade; stop; arrest; check; interrupt; clog;
choke; impede; retard; embarrass; oppose.
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obstructing
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OBSTRUCTING PROCESS
(bouvier) | OBSTRUCTING PROCESS. crim. law. The act by which one or more persons attempt
to prevent, or do prevent, the execution of lawful process.
2. The officer must be prevented by actual violence, or by threatened
violence, accompanied by the exercise of force, or by those having capacity
to employ it, by which the officer is prevented from executing his writ; the
officer is not required, to expose his person by a personal conflict with
the offender. 2 Wash. C. C. R. 169. See 3 Wash. C. C. R. 335.
3. This is in offence against public justice of a very high and
presumptuous nature; and more particularly so where the obstruction is of an
arrest upon criminal process: a person opposing an arrest upon criminal
process becomes thereby particeps criminis; that is, an accessary in felony,
and a principal in high treason. 4 Bl. Com. 128; 2 Hawk. c. 17, s. 1; l.
Russ. on Cr. 360: vide Ing. Dig. 159; 2 Gallis. Rep. 15; 2 Chit. Criminal
Law, 145, note a.
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