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New trial
only remedy the party injured by it has (except formerly error coram nobis or vobis in some few cases) is by applying to the Court for a new trial, which is in substitution for a bill of
Judge
Anderson v. Gorrie, (1895) 1 QB 671; Scott v. Stansfield, (1868) LR 3 Ex 220. In the latter case the defendant had said to the plaintiff (an accountant and scrivener), while trying a case in which he
Law
unable to resist its application and the sanction or penalty which is imposed for non-compliance, and in that case it becomes a law. If, in addition, the law and its sanction are imposed by, or by authority
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Injunction
right which it was contrary to equity that he should assert. Such an injunction might, upon a proper case being presented to the Court, be granted at any stage of the proceedings at law. Thus an injunction
Entitled to act
interest of the person interested for whom he would otherwise be entitled to act. (ii) in every such case the person interested may appear by a next friend, or, in default of his appearance by a next
Cross-examination
by the opposite side, generally after examination in chief, but some times without such examination; as in the case of an examination on the voir dire, which is in the nature of a cross-examination (see VOIR DIRE);
Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)
into the House of Lords, said that the absene of any provision for rectifying errors andmistakes in criminal cases constituted a blot upon the criminal jurisdiction of England which did not exist in any civilized country. The
Copyhold
at the lord's will. The law certainly considers the freehold to be in the lord (except in the case of strict customary free holds, when the freehold is in the tenant), and the tenant to possess his
Arrest
of a crime may be forthcoming to answer it. Arrests are either in civil or (see APPREHENSION) criminal cases; civil arrests must be affected, in order to be legal, by virtue of a precept or writ issue
Causes celebres
in 15, by Des Essarts. Compare Howell's State Trials in England. The word is applied to any English case of great interest and importance, as the Tichborne case (see Tichborne Case), Queen Caroline's case, etc.
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