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Home Dictionary Name: await Page: 2preventive detention
preventive detention : detention of a defendant awaiting trial for the purpose of preventing further misconduct or protecting an individual or the public ...
prisoner
prisoner : a person deprived of liberty and kept under involuntary restraint, confinement, or custody ;esp : one under arrest, awaiting trial, on trial, or serving a prison sentence ...
Culprit
Culprit. The prisoner at the Bar awaiting his trial after a plea of not guilty. 'Its first recorded use is in the trial of the Earl of Pembroke for murder in 1678. Its original force was formerly to join issue with the defendant's plea of Not guilty and to demand trial and judgment.'-Oxf. Dict., art. 'Culprit,' where see discussion of the disputed derivations of the word. It is thus derived by Donaldson. The clerk asks the prisoner, 'Are you guilty or not guilty ?' Prisoner, 'Not guilty.' Clerk, 'Qu'il paroit [may it prove so]; how will you be tried ?' Prisoner, 'By God and my country.' These words, being hurried over, came to sound, 'Culprit, how will you be tried ?' Blackstone's derivation is entirely different; see 4 Bl. Com. 339....
Entrepot
Entrepot [Fr.], a warehouse for goods bought and awaiting sale....
Pendency
Pendency, means the date or condition of being pending or continuing undecided or awaiting settlement, State v. Haridas Mundhra, (1973-74) 76 Cal WN 929....
Pending inquiry
Pending inquiry, means awaiting inquiry which would show that the petitioner could have been suspended even before the initiation of inquiry, Dilip Dineshchand Vaidya v. Board of Management Sheth V.S. Hospital, Ahmedabad, (1998) 1 Guj LR 144....
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