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Sedition
Vict. c. 25), if transact-ing no business not relating to the objects of the societies; and the (English) Criminal Libel Act, 1819 (60 Geo. 3 & 1 Geo. 4, c. 8). By the (English) Act of 1817, … of the United Kingdom as bylaw established or either House of Parliament,' or to excite the public 'to attempt the alteration of any matter in Church or State as bylaw established, otherwise than by lawful means,' the
Magna Carta
coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas of our Crown.' Pleas of the Crown comprehend the criminal department of the law. It was ever the anxious care of our ancestors that a person accused of … consideration of which the king grants 'for us and our heirs, that neither we nor our heirs shall attempt to do anything whereby the liberties contained in this charter may be infringed or broken. and if anything
Desertion
Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) … In view of the large variety of circumstances and of modes of life involved, the Court has discouraged attempts at defining desertion, there being no general principle applicable to all cases. Desertion is not the withdrawal from
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Plead
by argument or supplication to speak by way of persuasion as to plead for the life of a criminal to plead with a judge or with a father … claim or in defense against the claim of another to urge reasons for or against a thing to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication to speak by way of persuasion as to plead for the
Rattering
company's compliance with union rules. Rattering was formerly a common labour-union tactic in England, and it was a criminal offence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1270. … Rattering, means the practice of taking away tools, destroying machinery, and the like in an attempt either to compel a worker to join a union or to enforce a company's compliance with union rules.
Chloroform
offence.-Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 22. Procuring defilement of a woman by administering drugs, see (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), s. 3. … Chloroform, administering. It is a felony for any person to administer of attempt to administer chloroform, or other stupefying drug, within tent to enable himself or another to commit, or to
assault
by battery ;specif : sexual assault in this entry called also assault and battery aggravated assault : a criminal assault accompanied by aggravating factors: as a : a criminal assault that is committed with an intent to … from Latin assultus, from assilire to leap (on), attack] 1 : the crime or tort of threatening or attempting to inflict immediate offensive physical contact or bodily harm that one has the present ability to inflict and
Westminster the First, Statute of
by cities and boroughs; corrects and retrains the power of the king's escheator and other officers; amends the criminal law, putting the crime of rape on the footing to which it has been lately restored, as a … sheriffs, coroners, and conservators of the peace were still chosen by the freeholders in the county Court, and attempts had been made to influence the election of knights of the shire, from the time when they were
Cross-examination
may not be resorted to without just grounds of suspicion. The effect of s. 1 of the (English) Criminal Evidence Act, 1898, on questions which may not be put to a person charged with a criminal offence … as it does not appear which speaks tre, it is not sfe tobelieve either, or it should be attempted to cast the discredit on the onewhose evidence is more important. (6) with his own conduct in the
Serjeant
Mayor and Court of Aldermen on Court days. He acts as one of the judges of the Central Criminal Court. (5) Inferior serjeants, such as serjeants of the mace in corporations, officers of the county; and there … monopoly of exclusive audience enjoyed by the serjeants in the Court of Common Pleas, during term time, ineffectually attempted to be abolished by Royal Warrant in 1834 [see In the Matter of the Serjeants-at-law, (1840) 6 Bing
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