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custody
final judgment in a matter (as a divorce) is made c : official restraint on freedom (as by arrest or imprisonment or by release on bail, personal recognizance, probation, or parole) compare arrest constructive custody : custody
motion
: an application made to a court or judge to obtain an order, ruling, or direction [a to arrest judgment] ;also : a document containing such an application b : the initiative of a court to issue
Serjeant
Coif. Lord Lindley, d. 1921, was the last surviving Serjeant-at-Law. (2) Serjeants-at-arms, officers attending the sover-eign's person to arrest individuals of distinction offending, and give attendance on the Lord High Steward of England, sitting in judgment on
Special case
Court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or quarter sessions, any question of law arises on motion in arrest of judgment (or even independently of such motion), which such Court finds too difficult for its determination, it as empowered
Mesne process
IMPRISONMENT. By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest upon mesne process was relaxed, and confined to the case of a debtor about to quit England, and … a capias ad satisfaciendum, which was the final process, or process of execution. See IMPRISONMENT. By the (English) Judgments Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 110), s. 1, the power of arrest upon mesne process was
Benefit of clergy
Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes and states, anciently converted to Christianity, granted to
Justicies
Bl. Com. 36. As the sheriff could not, by this process, or the judgment to be obtained thereupon, arrest the defendant' body, but only take his goods, and as the cause might be removed at the defendant's
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