Confessant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Bar, plea in
was said, in the language of pleading, to traverse the matter of the declaration; in the latter, to confess and avoid it. Pleas in bar were consequently divided into (1) pleas by way of traverse, and (2)
McNabb-Mallory rule
in criminal procedure: an arrestee must be brought before a magistrate without unnecessary delay in order for a confession made during detention to be admissible NOTE: In practice, the rule is not absolute. Under the U.S. Code,
Accused, statement of
fear from any threat which may have been held out to him to induce him to make any confession, but that whatever he says may be given in evidence upon his trial, notwithstanding such promise or threat.
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Shrive
To hear or receive the confession of to administer confession and absolution to said of a priest as the agent
Civil death
Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), provides that after the passing of that Act no confession, verdict, inquest, conviction, or judgment of or for any treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause
Confessio facta in judicio omni probatione major est
Confessio facta in judicio omni probatione major est [Lat.], A confession made in judicial proceedings if of greater force
Confessus in judicio pro judicato habetur, et quodam modo sua sententia damnatur
Confessus in judicio pro judicato habetur, et quodam modo sua sententia damnatur [Lat.], A person confessing a judgment is
Consent-rule
a defendant in an action of ejectment specified for what purpose he intended to defend, and undertook to confess not only the fictitious lease, entry, and ouster, but that he was in possession.
Decisive oath
adversary was bound to accept, or tender the same proposal back again, otherwise the whole was taken as confessed by him, Cod, 4, 1, 12
Bruton error
is the violation of a criminal defendant's constitutional right of confrontation by admitting into evidence a non-testifying codefendant's confession that implicates a defendant who claims innocence, Bruton v. United States, 391 US 123: 88 SCT 1620.
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