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Common informer
Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws, or furnishes evidence on criminal trials for no other reason than to get the penalty or a share of it; for a recent … Common informer, a person who prosecutes others for breaches of penal laws, or furnishes evidence on criminal trials for no
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discovery
for a patent for the ] 3 a : the methods used by parties to a civil or criminal action to obtain information held by the other party that is relevant to the action see also deposition,
privilege
claim of a need to protect military, diplomatic, or national security secrets, the need for evidence in a criminal trial will outweigh a general assertion of executive privilege. informant's privilege : the privilege of the government to … a showing of actual malice called also conditional privilege b : an exemption from a requirement to disclose information (as for trial) that is granted because of a relationship or position that demands confidentiality [the attorney-client ]
Relator
the Attorney-General. Also, a person who brings an information in the nature of a quo warranto, or a criminal information. Means a party who has standing and on whose behalf a writ is petitioned for by the state
Prosecution
Prosecution, a proceeding either by way of indict-ment or information, in the criminal courts, in order to put an offender upon his trial. In all criminal prosecutions the King is nominally
Nuisance
proceedings of different kinds:- (1) It may give ground for an indictment by a private individual, or a criminal information at the suit of the Attorney-General. (2) It may give ground for a civil action, called an information,
Reward
for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a criminal, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1321. By the (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, s. 28, the Courts
informant
informs against another ;specif : one who makes a practice esp. for money of informing police of others' criminal activities … informant : one who informs against another ;specif : one who makes a practice esp. for money of informing
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