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Criminal conversation

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Garrotting

Garrotting, the criminal choking of a person. by the Garrotters Act, 1863 (26 & 27Vict. c. 44), the crimes of robbery

Incrimination

The act of incriminating crimination

Illegal entry

Illegal entry (Criminal law) the unlawful act of going into a building with the intent to commit a crime. In some jurisdictions illegal entry is

Sessions of the peace

oyer and terminer, and a Court of record, and not a Court of inferior jurisdiction. The jurisdictional is criminal an civil, and arises from the commission of the peace itself, as settled under 18 Edw. 3, c. … or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:- I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place,

Criminal Evidence Act

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Trial

Trial, is the conclusion, by a competent tribunal, of question in issue in legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal. Strouds Judicial Dictionary (5th Edn.) Indian Bank v. Maharashtra State Co-op. Marketing Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. … from an issue. It may equally mean the trial of an election petition or a complaint or an action from beginning to end, H.V. Kamath v. Election Tribunal, AIR 1958 MP 168. Means the entire proceedings before

Bail

hearing, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn., (2005), p. 41. Bail may be given either in civil or criminal cases. In civil cases there were, before the abolition of arrest on mesne process by the Debtors Act,

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