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Amicus curi' (Lat., friend of the Court), a member of the bar or other stander by, who informs the Court when doubtful or mistaken of any fact or decided case...
amicus
amicus pl: ami·ci [-mē-kē, -mī-sī] : amicus curiae ...
amicus curiae
amicus curiae pl: amici curiae [New Latin, literally, friend of the court] : one (as an individual or organization) that is not a party to a particular lawsuit but is allowed to advise the court regarding a point of law or fact directly concerning the lawsuit [a brief of an amicus curiae may be filed "Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 29"] called also friend of the court ...
Auxilium curi'
Auxilium curi', a precept or order of Court citing and convening a party, at the suit and request of another, to warrant something, Ken. Paroch. Antiq. 477...
Consideratio curi-
Consideratio curi-, the judgment of the Court....
Curi' Christianitatis
Curi' Christianitatis, courts of Christianity; ecclesiastical courts....
Extracta curi'
Extracta curi', the issues or profits of holding a Court, arising from the customary fees, etc., Paroch. Antiq. 572....
Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa
Nemo debet bis vexari, si constat curi' quod sit pro una et eadem causa. 5 Co. 61, (No man ought to be twice put to trouble, if it appear to the Court that it is for one and the same cause.) In civil actions the general rule is, that the judgment of a Court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point, is, as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question in another Court. the exception to this rule is in the action of ejectment, 2 Selw. N.P. 763.It is also well established in the criminal law, that when a man is indicted for an offence, and acquitted, he cannot afterwards be indicted for the same offence, provided the first indictment were such that he could have been lawfully convicted upon it by proof of the facts contained in the second indictment, Arch. Cr. Plead. For a recent instance of the application of the maxim, see Rex. v. Simpson, (1914) 1 KB 66. See AUTREFOIS CONVICT.But an abortive trial without a verdic...
Profert in curi'
Profert in curi' (he produces in court). Where either party alleged any deed, he was generally obliged, by a rule of pleading, to make profert of such deed; that is, to produce it in Court simultaneously with the pleading in which it was alleged. This, in the days of oral pleading, was of course an actual production in court. Since then it consisted of a formal allegation that he showed the deed in Court, it being, in fact, retained in his own custody. See OYER. Abolished by C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 55....
Quod constat curi' opere testium non indiget
Quod constat curi' opere testium non indiget. 2 Inst. 662, (What is manifest to the Court needs not the help of witnesses.) see JUDICIAL NOTICE....
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