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Ad melius inquirendum
Ad melius inquirendum. A writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See Reg. v. Carter, (1876) 45 LJ QB 711, in which
Felo de se
forfeiture for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness
Chancellor, Lord
the appointment and removal of county court judges (see COUNTY COURTS), and [see s. 8 of the (English) Coroners Act, 1887] the power to remove coroners. He is one of the three ex-officio trustees of the British
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Bail
expressly enacts that excessive bail ought not to be required. By s. 5, sub-s. 2, of the (English) Coroners Act, 1887, coroners may admit to bail persons charged with manslaughter upon an inquisition before them, and by
Champion of the King (or Queen)
in the family of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire) it was to ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge, 'that if
Parchment
Judicature Act, 1875, R.S.C. Ord. V., R. 10; Ord. LXVI., R. 3. As to repeal of provision in Coroners Act, 1887, which maintained the use of parchment in the case of inquisitions by coroners of murder and
Quinto exactus
return made after a defendant had been called to five county courts but failed to appear. The county coroners then ordered that the defendant be deprived of the benefits of the law, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.,
Medical witnesses
Medical witnesses, may be ordered to attend at an inquest by the coroner under the (English) Coroners Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 71), s. 21. The deposition of civil
Super visum corporis
Super visum corporis [Lat.] (upon view of the body). A coroner's inquest must generally be so held; but the Coroners Act, 1887, allows a view to be dispensed with
Sheading
of Man, where the whole island is divided into six sheadings, in each of which there is a coroner or chief constable appointed by a delivery of a rod at the Tinewald Court or annual convention, King's
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