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Bail
bail. Bail is granted to a person who has been arrested in a non-bailable offence or has been convicted of an offence after trial. The effect of granting bail is to release the accused from internment thought
Attains du fet
Attains du fet [Fr.], convicted of the fact,caught by it, having it brought home to one, Wedgw.
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
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Amnesty
sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted, e.g. the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act provided amnesty for undocumented aliens already present in the country,
Aggravated assaults
be sufficiently punished under the provisions of s. 42 as to common assaults and batteries,' to give a convicted offender six months' imprisonment with hard labour or to fine him up to 20l. including costs (the maximum
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.'
Accomplice
by virtue of (English) Lord Denman's Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. C. 85), s. 1, even though convicted, and now by virtue of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. C. 36), s. 1,
Accessary, or Accessory
(English) Accessories and Abettors Act, 1861, an accessory before the fact to any felony may be indicted, tried, convicted, and punished in all respects as if he were a principal felon, and an accessory after the fact
Abusing children
the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922. A girl aiding and abetting in her own defilement cannot be convicted of any offence, R. v. Tyrrel, (1894) 1 QB 710. The Act of 1885 has further provisions dealing
Abduction
parent or other person having the lawful care of her. In either of these two cases a person convicted is incapable of taking any estate or interest in the woman's property, (English) Offences against the Person Act,
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