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Judge
of the High Court there are, in addition to the Lord Chancellor, six judges, and in the King's Bench Division, in addition to the Lord Chief Justice, there are nineteen judges, two having been added by the
Jeopardy
defendant faces at trial. Jeopardy attaches in a jury trial when the jury is empaneled, and in a Bench trial when the first witness is sworn. Also termed legal jeopardy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839.
Information
formerly filed in the Court of Exchequer, but is now instituted on the Revenue side of the King's Bench Division) is a suit for recovering money or other chattels, or for ob-taining satisfaction, in damages, for any
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Indictment
certain enactments set out in the 1st Schedule (high treason and certain other offences tribal in the King's Bench Division). Indictments were of a highly technical character until simplified by the Indictments Act, 1915, which directs that
High Steward, Court of the Lord
of Parliament. When, therefore, such an indictment is found by a grand jury of freeholders in the King's Bench, or at the assizes before a judge of oyer and terminer, it is removed by a writ of
Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
supposed criminal matter, or for debt, or by pro-cess in any civil suit), any judge of the King's Bench Division of the High Court 'shall, upon probable and reasonable ground for such complaint award in vacation a
Habeas corpora juratorum
Pleas, commanding the sheriff to summon a jury. The practice was similar to the distringas from the King's Bench and Exchequer for the same purpose. Abolished by C.L.O. Act, 1852, s. 104. Is a writ or order
Gynaec Egalite
militant unity battles for fairness to feminist rights.' Crime Against Women and Children in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 196. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
Globophobia
change course. Globophobia will erupt.' [Bharat! A Tryst Betrayed and a Tragedy Engineered in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 247]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
GATT-astrophe
foreign domination are all on our way to recolonisation. This I call is GATT-astrophe.' [Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 139]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)
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