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Redargue

To disprove to refute toconfute to reprove to convict

Administrator

the person appointed under the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23, in whom a convict's property vests; see Re Gaskell, (1906) 2 Ch 1. The corresponding term in Scotland is 'executor-dative.'

Any person not being the accused

of the Court to bring before it any person who appears to have committed an offence and to convict and pass an appropriate order of sentence on proof of such person having committed the offence, Jarnail Singh

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Articles of religion

case in 1850, the Wilson case in 1864, and the Bennet case in 1871; but in order to convict a clergyman for impugning them, it is not necessary that they should have been contradicted in so many

Botany Bay

A harbor on the east coast of Australia and an English convict settlement there so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by

Opinion

mere retailing of gossip or of hearsay; it means judgment or belief, that is, a belief or a conviction resulting from what one thinks on a particular question. Such belief or conviction may manifest itself in conduct

Obliqua oratio

Obliqua oratio, the manner of reporting a speech in which 'he,' not 'I,' stands for the speaker in giving his words; and hence the words 'you,' 'your,' never occur, and every sentence begins with the word...

Misdemeanour

greater felony includes a less felony, so that, e.g., on an indictment for murder there may be a conviction of manslaughter; but no felony includes a misdemeanour, so that at Common Law no person on an indictment

Intoxicating liquor

forfeiture if any condition imposed on the grant is not complied with or if the licence holder is convicted of any offence [s. 14(4)] The confirming authority, however, i.e., in counties quarter sessions, in boroughs not having

Interested witness

'interested' postulates that the witness must have some direct interest in having the accused somehow or the other convicted for some animus or for some other reason, Kartik Malhar v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 SCC 614

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Redargue

To disprove to refute toconfute to reprove to convict

Administrator

the person appointed under the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, 33 & 34 Vict. c. 23, in whom a convict's property vests; see Re Gaskell, (1906) 2 Ch 1. The corresponding term in Scotland is 'executor-dative.'

Any person not being the accused

of the Court to bring before it any person who appears to have committed an offence and to convict and pass an appropriate order of sentence on proof of such person having committed the offence, Jarnail Singh

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Articles of religion

case in 1850, the Wilson case in 1864, and the Bennet case in 1871; but in order to convict a clergyman for impugning them, it is not necessary that they should have been contradicted in so many

Botany Bay

A harbor on the east coast of Australia and an English convict settlement there so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by

Opinion

mere retailing of gossip or of hearsay; it means judgment or belief, that is, a belief or a conviction resulting from what one thinks on a particular question. Such belief or conviction may manifest itself in conduct

Obliqua oratio

Obliqua oratio, the manner of reporting a speech in which 'he,' not 'I,' stands for the speaker in giving his words; and hence the words 'you,' 'your,' never occur, and every sentence begins with the word...

Misdemeanour

greater felony includes a less felony, so that, e.g., on an indictment for murder there may be a conviction of manslaughter; but no felony includes a misdemeanour, so that at Common Law no person on an indictment

Intoxicating liquor

forfeiture if any condition imposed on the grant is not complied with or if the licence holder is convicted of any offence [s. 14(4)] The confirming authority, however, i.e., in counties quarter sessions, in boroughs not having

Interested witness

'interested' postulates that the witness must have some direct interest in having the accused somehow or the other convicted for some animus or for some other reason, Kartik Malhar v. State of Bihar, (1996) 1 SCC 614

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