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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.'
Papist
either under that title or under the title of persons professing the Popish religion, or of Popish recusants convict, were subjected, by one statute after another, to various civil and religious disabilities, the removal of which began
Palmer's Act
from local prejudice. So called from the poisoner William Palmer, of Rugeley, in Staffordshire, who was tried and convicted at the Central Criminal Court in 1856. See Trial of William Palmer, 1912, Edn. by George H. Knott.
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Open Court
subject of the King, Scott v. Scott, 1913 AC 417 (440). By statute the place where justices summarily convict is an open Court [(English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, s. 12], but not so the place where they
Omne majus continet in se minus
208, (The greater contains or embraces the less; e.g., a person on an indictment for murder may be convicted of manslaughter.)
Newspaper
newspaper for libel, allows the defence of justification to be gone into by justices, allows justices to summarily convict, and gives 'privilege' (see LIBEL) to newspaper reports of proceedings in a Court or at public meetings. The
Musician, London
of not more than forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for anytime not more than three days. [or in default of payment for not more
Misdemeanant
Misdemeanant, a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1014
Mercy, Recommendation to
Crown on certain named grounds. Such a recommendation has no legal effect whatever, but is usually attended to. Convicts, however, have been hanged inspite of it
Marriage
is absent for seven years without being heard of, the other party marrying again cannot be prosecuted or convicted for bigamy. But proof that the absent husband or wife was alive at the time of the second
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