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Actore non probante absolvitur reus (Hob. 103)

the plaintiff does not prove his case the defendant is acquitted.

Barr-fee, a fee of 20l. payable by every prisoner acquitted of felony to the sheriff or gaoler, Termes de la

been charged merely as an accessory after principal has been acquitted, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 24.

certain cases the prosecutor to pay the costs of an acquitted person. S. 3 of the Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 1930,

Lord Cardigan wounded Captain Tuckett, and was tried before, and acquitted by, the House of Lords in 1841; and Mr. Seton

war against the King. He was defended by Erskine and acquitted for want of evidence; see 21 St. Tr. 485; Lecky's

lying for a surety against the creditor who refuses to acquit him after the debt is satisfied.

In abatement. (3) Special pleas in bar, as (a) Autrefois acquit. (b) Autrefois convict. (c) Pardon. (4) General issue of not

to make the offender a new man (novus homo), to acquit him of all corporal penalties and forfeitures annexed to the

acquietando, a judicial writ to distrain a lord for the acquitting of a mesne lord from a rent, which he had