Arraignment - Law Dictionary Search Results
Lunatic
of Lunatics Act, 1883, s. 2]. A person found on arraignment to be insane by verdict of a jury may be
Manner or mainour
In such a case he might be brought into Court, arraigned and tried, without indictment, 4 Bl. Com. 308.
Sus. Per coll
by the neck'-was the usual indorsement by the clerk of arraigns in the case of a capital sentence. At the present
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Privilege
are exempt from attending courts-leet or the posse comitatus; when arraigned for any criminal offence it must be before their peers,
Parties interested
the result of the suit and they need not be arraigned as defendants or plaintiffs, AIR 1966 J&K 1(7). (Arbitration Act,
Mutus
anything to say. Standing mute is when a person, being arraigned, either cannot speak, or refuses to answer or plead. SEE
Culprit
One accused of or arraigned for a crime as before a judge
Mainour
of a thief. At common law, the thief could be arraigned and tried without an indictment. Also spelled manour; meinour. Also
Defence
always by word of mouth) when a person charged is arraigned before the Court, and asked by the Clerk, after stating
Criminal proceeding
before a court and the 'accused' means a person actually arraigned, that is, put on a trial, Laxmipat Choraria v. State
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