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Excommunicato recapiendo
Excommunicato recapiendo, a writ commanding that persons excommunicated, who for their obstinacy had been committed to prison, but were unlawfully set free before they had given caution to obey the authority of the
Delinquent child
Delinquent child, a child who has been found to have committed an offence, Raghbir v. State of Haryana, (1981) 4 SCC 210: AIR 1981 SC 2037: (1982) 1 SCR
Hanging in chains
murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder was committed, a practice abolished by 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 26.
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Curtilage
of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the limit of the premises in which house-breaking can be committed. See (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 46 (2), by which no building, though within the curtilage, is to
Custodiam lease
under the Exchequer seal, by which the custody of lands, etc., seised in the king's hands,is demised or committed to some person as custodee or lessee thereof.
De frangentibus prisonam, Statute of
st. 2, which enacts that no person shall have judgment of life or member for breaking prison, unless committed for some capital offence.
De lunatico inquirendo, writ
be found non compos, the care of his person, with a suitable allowance for his maintenance, is usually committed to one of his relations or friends, then called his committee. The proceedings are by way of petition
De odio et atia
et atia, an obsolete writ which commanded the sheriff to inquire whether a prisoner charged with murder was committed on general cause of suspicion, or merely propter odium et atiam, for hatred and ill-will, with a view,
Deposition
c. 35), ss. 6, 7. Under the first of these Acts, the evidence upon which a prisoner is committed for trial by justices of the peace is taken down, and may be read at the trial upon
Every distinct offence
be no distinctness and it would depend on the circumstances of the case in which the offences were committed, whether there be separate charges for those offences or not, Banwarilal Jhunjhunwala v. Union of India, AIR 1963
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