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Beck (fr. becc, Sax.], a small brook....
Pardon
Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment.The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn.The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and the public, excepting: (1) That to preserve the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2) that the sovereign cannot pardon where private justice is principally concerned in the prosecution of offenders--'non potest rex gratiam facere cum injuria et damno aliorum.'Neither at Common Law could the sovereign pardon an offence against a penal statute after information brought; for thereby the informer had acquired private property in his part of the penalty. But the Remission of Penalties Act, 1859, enables the Crown to remit penalties for offences, although payable to parties other than the Crown; and a special power...
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English) (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), came into force on the 19th April, 1908. For a great number of years the merits and demerits of criminal appeal have been discussed in this country.In 1844 Sir Fitzroy Kelly, in a remarkable speech in the House of Commons, advocated criminal appeal, the claim to which has also been recognized by Starkie, Sir John Holker, and Chief Baron Pollock; and even Blackstone,with whom, as Mr. Lecky has observed, admiration of our national jurisprudence was almost a foible, passed some severe criticisms on the stateof the criminal law of his day. In more recent times Lord James of Hereford (then Sir Henry James) introduced a criminal appeal bill into the House of Commons,which was supported by Lord Russell of Killowen (then Sir Charles Russell). And in 1889 Lord Fitzgerald, when introducing a measure into the House of Lords, said that the absene of any provision for rectifying errors andmistakes in criminal cases constituted a blot upon the c...
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Becks scale
A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp gr 100 and the 30deg point to sp gr 085 From these points the scale is extended both ways all the degrees being of equal length...
Forensic medicine
Forensic medicine, the science which applies the principles and practice of the different branches of medicine to the elucidation of doubtful questions in a court of justice. It comprehends, in a more extensive sense, medical police, or those medical precepts which may prove useful to the legislature or the magistracy. This science is also termed medical jurisprudence, legal medicine, and state medicine. Consult the works of Taylor, Guy, Beck, or Tidy on the subject....
Identity
Identity. The being the same person or thing as represented or believed to be.Identitas vera colligitur ex multitudine signorum. Bacon, (True identity collected from a multitude of signs.)See Hubback on Succession, pp. 438 et seq.; Best on Evidence, 10th ed., s. 517, as to identification generally, and ss. 517 A.B.C. for curious cases of mistaken identity--such as the Tichborne Case in 1867-1872, and the beck Casein 1896 and 1904. For forms of evidence and affidavits of identity, see Dan. Ch. Pr.Identity, means the identical nature of two or more things, esp., in patent law, the sameness in two devices of the function performed, the way it is performed, and the result achieved. Under the doctrine of equivalents, infringement may identical to the claimed invention, Black's Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 748....
Lucid Interval
Lucid Interval. By a lucid interval is understood, in a legal sense, a temporary cessation of the insanity or a perfect restoration to reason. It differs entirely from a remission, in which there is a mere abatement of the symptoms. See per Lord Thurlow in Attroney-General v. Parnther, (1792) 3 Bro. C. C. 442; also Ray's Med. Jur. of Insan.; Beck's Med. Jur.; and Browne's Med. Jur. of Insan....
Medical witnesses
Medical witnesses, may be ordered to attend at an inquest by the coroner under the (English) Coroners Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71), s. 21. The deposition of civil surgeon or other medical witness, taken and attested by a Magistrate in the presence of the accused, or taken on commission under this chapter, may be given in evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this code, although the deponent is not called as a witness (CrPC, 1973, s. 291).For some valuable hints as to the conduct of medical witnesses, consult Taylor's or Beck's Med. Jur., tit. 'Medical Evidence.'...
Paternity
Paternity. The general rule is that 'pater vero is est quem nupti' demonstrant' (Dig. Lib. 2, tit. 4, 1. 5). For a discussion of the law on the subject of paternity and the cases in which it may be shown that the child is not that of the husband, see Russell v. Russell, 1924 AC 687; Hubback on Succession, pp. 378 et seq.; Sir Harris Nicolas on Adulterine Bastardy. A husband may give evidence that he had never had intercourse with his wife before the marriage (The Poulett Peerage, 1903, AC 395). It becomes a question, when a widow marries immediately after the death of her husband, and she is delivered of a child at the expiration of ten months from the death of the first husband, as to the paternity of the child. Blackstone and Coke say, that if a man dies, and his widow soon after marries again, and a child is born within such a time as that by the course of nature it might have been the child of either husband in this case he is said to be more than ordinarily legitimate; for he may,...
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