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Criminal cause or matter
Matched in: Term Criminal cause or matter
Cause or matter
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Criminal cause
Matched in: Term Criminal cause
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Crime
on Crimes, and Mellor v. Denham, (1880) 5 QBD 467, and other cases decided upon the meaning of 'criminal cause or matter' in Judicature Act, 1925, s. 31 (1)(a), replacing s. 47 of the Judicature Act, 1873, which in Mellor … breach of a bye-law under the Education Act, 1870, s. 74. The question as to what is a ''criminal cause or matter''is important when there is an intention to appeal. Contempt of Court, if a substantive offence, will come within
Cause, matter
Matched in: Term Cause, matter
Confession
1872, s. 24) The confession is a form of admission consisting of direct acknowledgment of guilt in a criminal charge. It must be in express words by the accused in a criminal case of the truth of … a self-exculpatory matter cannot amount to a confession. The confession should be a voluntary one, that means not caused by inducement, threat or promise. Whether a confession is voluntary or not is essentially a question of fact,
Account or Accompt
(English) Judicature Act, 1925, see ss. 88-97, repeating s. 14 of the (English) Arbitration Act, 1889, in any cause or matter (other than a criminal proceeding by the Crown) if the question in dispute consists wholly or in part
Attorney-General
also ex-officio head of the bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished … bar for the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of error until they were abolished by s. 20 of the … the time being. He exhibits informations, prosecutes for the Crown in criminal matters and in revenue causes, and used to grant fiats for writs of
Unclaimed property
a certain time.' As to property which has come into possession of the police in connection with a criminal matter, see the general Police (Property) Act, 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. 30). See RESTITUTION OF STOLEN … lent to the banker by the customer, repayable upon and not until demand without which there is no cause of action: see the judgment of Bankes, LJ, in Joachimson v. Swiss Bank Corporation, (1921) 3 KB 110,
Benefit of clergy
Benefit of clergy [privilegium clericale, Lat.], an arrest of judgment in criminal cases. The origin of it was this: Princes and states, anciently converted to Christianity, granted to the clergy … the church, and even to laymen if they could read, applying it to civil as well as criminal causes. These exemptions at length grew so burthensome and scandalous, that the legislature from time to time interfered, by … claimed this benefit as an indefeasible right, which had been merely a matter of royal favour, founding their principal argument upon this text of Scripture:
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