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Diversity

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Diversity, a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately empanelled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the identity of the person; and not whether he is guilty or innocent, for that has been already decided, 4 Bl. Com. 396. See also 1 Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 370.

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