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confession of judgment :acknowledgment by a debtor of a claim and consent that a judgment may be entered usu. without notice or hearing for the amount of the claim when it is due and unpaid compare cognovit note at note ...
Confession of plea
Confession of plea. A plea containing a defence arising after the commencement of an action, or after the last pleading, might be confessed by the plaintiff, Reg. Gen. H.T. 1853, rr. 22, 23. See previous title....
Confession, judgment by
Confession, judgment by. See COGNOVIT....
Voluntary, voluntary confession
Voluntary, voluntary confession, the crux of mak-ing a statement voluntarily is, what is intentional, intended, unimpelled by other influences, acting on one's own will, through his own conscience. Such confessional statements are made mostly out of a thirst to speak the truth which at a given time predominates in the heart of the confessor which impels him to speak out the truth. Internal compulsion of the conscience to speak out the truth normally emerges when one is in despondency or in a perilous situation when he wants to shed his cloak of guilt and nothing but disclosing the truth would dawn on him. It sometimes becomes so powerful that he is ready to face all consequences for clearing his heart, Devender Pal Singh v. State of NCT of Delhi, (2002) 5 SCC 234 (260): AIR 2002 SC 1661. [Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Preven-tion) Act, 1987, s. 15]...
Westminster confession
Westminster confession, a document containing a statement of religious doctrine drawn up at a conference of British and Continental Protestant divines at Westminster in the year 1643, which subsequently became the basis of the Scotch Presbyterian Church....
Confessing error
Confessing error, the affirmative plea to an assignment of error....
Confessant
One who confesses to a priest...
Accused, statement of
Accused, statement of. Where an accused person is brought before justices of the peace, the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 12, directs the justices, after the close of the evidence for the prosecution, to ask him whether he wishes to say anything in answer to the charge, telling him that he is not obliged to say anything unless he desires to do so, but that whatever he says will be taken down in writing, and may be given in evidence upon his trial. The justices, before the accused person makes any statement, must make him clearly understand that he has nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to 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. Whatever the accused states in answer to the charge shall be taken down in the manner shown in the forms prescribed by the rules made under the Ac...
Shrive
To hear or receive the confession of to administer confession and absolution to said of a priest as the agent...
McNabb-Mallory rule
McNabb-Mallory rule [after McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943) and Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449 (1957), U.S. Supreme Court cases that established the rule] : a doctrine 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, a delay of more than six hours in bringing an arrestee before a magistrate will not render a confession inadmissible if the delay was reasonable in light of distance and transportation. ...
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