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judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the Court is transacted in civil cases, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44. … (2005), p. 44. Means the railing in a court room that enclose the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the Court is transacted in civil cases, Webster's
Guilty
Guilty. Having committed a crime or tort; the word used by a prisoner in pleading to an indictment when he confesses the crime of which
Trial
SC 3701. Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 … the judicial proceedings before court of session which ends in a judgment of acquittal or conviction of the prisoner. It means the whole of proceedings including the sentence, Janardhan v. State of Kerala, 1978 Ker LT 546.
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Bail
a later hearing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., (2005), p. 41. Bail may be given either in civil or criminal cases. In civil cases there were, before the abolition of arrest on mesne process by the … a security such as cash or a bond, especially security required by court for the release of a prisoner who must appear at a further time, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 135. Bail, a temporary release
Middlesex, Bill of
a writ anciently resorted to by the Court of King's Bench, in order to enlarge its jurisdiction in civil causes, which was formerly confined to actions of trespass, or other injury alleged to have been committed vi … of the Court, or in the custody of the marshal, or prison-keeper of the Court. in proceedings against prisoners or officers of the Court, the actions were said to be commenced by bill, in all other cases
Escape
or imprisoned, and gets away before he is delivered by due course of law. Escapes are either in civil or criminal cases. (1) Civil. The abolition of imprisonment for debt has rendered this all but obsolete, and … Escapes are either voluntary, by the express consent of the keeper, after which he never can take his prisoner again (though the plaintiff may retake him at any time), but the sheriff had to answer for the
Obsolete
Adm 193. In Scotland the law is otherwise: see Bell's Law Dict., tit. 'Desuetude,' and so in the Civil Law desuetude works invalidity. As to the English Common Law, Wager of Battel survived till 1819 and required … its abolition, and so did pressing to death for want of a plea, and the inquiry whether the prisoner fled for his crime in criminal cases (see the title PEINE FORTE ET DURE, and FLY FOR IT),
Not guilty
'general issue.' See PLEADING. The plea of not guilty, jin criminal proceedings, is the proper form wherever a prisoner means either to deny or justify the charge in the indictment; the effect of which plea is, that … Not guilty, a plea by way of traverse which occurred in actions of trespass, libel, or other tort, and amounted to a denial only of the breach of duty or wrongful act alleged to have been
Justifiable homicide
Where an officer or his assistant, in the due execu-tion of his office, either in a criminal or civil case, arrests, or attempts to arrest, a person who resists and who is killed in the struggle. (b) … both at Common Law and by the (English) Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5). (g) Where the prisoners in a gaol assault the galore or officer, and he in his defence kills any of them; it
Jury
consist of any number, not less than seven or more than eleven. Juries in all criminal trials and civil trials in the superior courts, and in writs of inquiry, consist of twelve men, neither more nor less. … In some cases a juror gets a customary allowance for trying causes, but in no case for trying prisoners. An alien is no longer entitled to be tried by a jury de medietate lingu'; see British Nationality
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