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Counter-sign
replacing (except as to London) Municipal Cor-porations Act, 1882, s. 141.Also the password in response to a military challenge by a sentinel or guard. To 'countersign' means 'to sign opposite to along side of or in addition
Contest
law, to oppose, 'resist or dispute; to strive to win or hold: to controvert, litigate, call in question, challenge to defend. The contest continues right up to the final decision or, in other words the right to
Clerico convicto commisso gaol' in defectu ordinarii deliberando
lay for the delivery to his ordinary, of a clerk convicted of felony where the ordinary did not challenge him, according to the privilege of clerks, Ibid. 69.
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Circumstantibus, Tales de
the bystanders). In civil and criminal trials, where by reason of the default of the jury, or of challenge, there is not a sufficient number of the jurors impanelled, the judge may direct the sheriff to add
Appellor
Appellor, an accuser; a criminal who accuses his accomplices, one who challenges a jury, etc.
Child in need of care and protection
the child in question being killed, abused or neglected by that person, (iii) who is mentally or physically challenged or ill children or children suffering from terminal diseases or incurable diseases having no one to support or
Felony
[60 & 61 Vict. c. 18)]; that a person indicted for murder or felony is entitled to peremptorily challenge twenty jurors on the panel (English) (County Juries Act, 1825 (6 Geo. 4, c. 50), s. 29, as
Champion of the King (or Queen)
at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge, 'that if any man shall deny the King's title to the crown, he is there ready to defend
Calling the jury
whose names are first called, and who appear, are sworn or the jury, unless some just cause of challenge or excuse, with respect to any of them, shall be brought forward.
Calangium and calangia
Calangium and calangia, a challenge, claim or dispute, Dugd. Mon., tom. 2 fol. 252.
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