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Specific performance

fully set forth in the plaintiff's claim, and the defendant puts in his answer or defence thereto, and confesses the agreement. By the Judicature Act, 1873, s. 34 [see now (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 56 (1)],

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

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discovery

Criminal Procedure 16, a defendant may obtain discovery of his or her own written or recorded statements or confessions, results of examinations and tests, his or her recorded testimony before a grand jury, and testimony to be

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

Arraign

a plea in abatement or in bar, or the prisoner may demur to the indictment, or he may confess the fact, upon which the Court proceeds immediately to judgment. But, if the prisoner 'shall stand mute or

Recognition

The act of recognizing or the state of being recognized acknowledgment formal avowal knowledge confessed or avowed notice

Profess

To take a profession upon ones self by a public declaration to confess

Own

To grant to acknowledge to admit to be true to confess to recognize in a particular character as we own that we have forfeited your love

Extort

from to tear away to wring from to exact as to extort contributions from the vanquished to extort confessions of guilt to extort a promise to extort payment of a debt

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