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Mutus

a person, being arraigned, either cannot speak, or refuses to answer or plead. SEE PEINE FORTE ET DURE. To advise a

New trial

not at the time of the trial be prepared to answer. (7) Discovery of new evidence after the trial. A new

Non sum informatus

Non sum informatus, a formal answer made of course by an attorney, that he was not

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Officio, Ex, Oath

oath whereby a person might be obliged to make his answer to any matters alleged against him, and extending originally even

Oral argument

chance for you (not for some chance-assigned mere judge) to answer any questions you can stir any member of the court

Oyer

do both, namely, where he has occasion to found his answer upon any matter contained in the deed of which profert

Pending

or tribunal where it is said to be pending. The answer is that until the case is concluded it is pending,

Judge

a judge act without jurisdiction he may be made to answer for the consequences of his acts, Anderson v. Gorrie, (1895)

Interrogatories

trial thereof, to the other party, who is bound to answer them in writing upon oath. In the Courts of Equity

Issue

a word of purchase or of limitation, as would best answer the intention of the testator; and for the effect of

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