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Magna Carta

thus:-'We will not hold the lands of them that be convict of felony but one year and one day, and then

(3) ex necessitate legis; as where a woman is capitally convicted and pleads her pregnancy. See JURY FMATRONS. Or (4) if

Secretary Akers-Douglas to inquire into the circumstances of the two convictions of offences (for which he had been doubly pardoned) of

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is meant an order in a trial terminating in the conviction or acquittal of the accused, Thikka Surya Rao v. Sirangu

3rd s. of the same Act empowers a Court on conviction of a drunkard to order him to enter into a

that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour

the conclusion of which each member votes for or against conviction on each article of impeachment. Two-thirds of the Senate members

of having forfeited lands and goods to the Crown upon conviction for certain offences, and then, by transition, any offence upon

of session which ends in a judgment of acquittal or conviction of the prisoner. It means the whole of proceedings including

dead in law, technically called civiliter mortuus. It differs from conviction in that it is after judgment, whereas conviction is upon

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