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Abatement

the judge may amend the indictment or information, and call upon the prisoner or defendant to plead in bar to the merits; and by the (English) Indictments Act, 1915 (5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 90), the … require an immediate remedy, and cannot wait for the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice. (3) Plea in Abatement.-A defence by which a defendant showed cause to the Court why he should not be sued, or,

General issue

criminal proceedings the general issue is 'not guilty,' which is pleaded viva voce by the prisoner at the bar. … General issue, a plea simply traversing modo et forma the allegations in the declaration, as the plea of 'not guilty' in torts;

Unclaimed property

stock. There is no similar provision in Table A to the Acts of 1908 and 1929. Dividends are barred by the Statute of Limitations at the end of twenty years [Re Artisans, etc., Corporation, (1904) 1 Ch … an order in his favour from the Chancery Division of the High Court, which 'shall, on application by petition by the new claimant, verified as the Court requires, order the National Debt Commissioners to transfer to him

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Judgment

an order after hearing the preliminary objections raised by the defendant relating to maintainability of the suit, e.g., bar of jurisdiction, res judicata, a manifest defect in the suit, absence of notice under s. 80 and the … The several species of judgments are either:- (a) Interlocutory, given in the course of a cause, upon some plea, proceeding, or default, which is only intermediate, and does not finally determine or complete the action. See INQUIRY;

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