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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. … Federation Ltd., (1998) 5 SCC 69. Trial, is the examination by a competent court of the facts or laws in dispute, or put in issue in a case. It is the judicial examination of issues between the
Sessions of the peace
s. 53, and (English) Municipal Elections Act, 1884, ss. 30, 35, 36). (23) Indictable offences against the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885. (24) Misdemeanours under the (English) Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906. (25) Offences under the (English)
Unlawful assembly
assembly reasonable grounds to apprehend a breach of the peace in consequence of it. See Stephen's Digest of Criminal Law, 6th Edn., p. 55, and compare RIOT; ROUT; PUBLIC MEETING; PUBLIC ORDER.
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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,
Judgment
far as the inquiring Court is concerned is a 'judgment' within the meaning of s. 494 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, State of Bihar v. Ram Naresh Pandey, AIR 1957 SC 389: (1957) SCR 279. (S. … Court. Under the former practice of the superior Courts, this term was usually applied only to the Common Law Courts, the term 'decree' being in general use in the Court of Chancery. The expression 'Judg-ment,' however, is
Husband and wife
dispute) by the judge of the county Court of the district in which either party resides. As to criminal law, if a wife commit a felony, except treason, or murder, or manslaughter, in her husband' presence, the law
Arrest
c. 71)]. For further statutes and for arrest generally see Archbold's Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice. The (English) Criminal Law Act, 1826, ss. 28 and 30, and the (English) Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1861, s. 8, provide compensation
Court
Land Reforms Act, 1950 is not a 'Court' within the meaning of s. 195(1)(b) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Keshab Moroyan Banerjee v. State of Bihar, AIR 2000 SC 485 (490). [Bihar Land Reforms … being courts of inferior dignity, and in a less propesense the King's Courts--and these are not entrusted by law with any power to fine or imprison the subjects of the realm, unless by the express provision of
Offence
1897), s. 3(38)] It generally implies infringement of public duty, as distinguished from mere private rights punishable under criminal law, Depot Manager, A.P. SRTC v. Mohd. Yousuf Miya, (1997) 2 SCC 699: 1997 SCC (L&S) 548.
Reprieve
the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law 757, 2nd Edn., 1826. Means temporary postponement of the execution of a criminal sentence, especially a death sentence, … the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of execution, A Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law 757, 2nd Edn., 1826 by Joseph Chitty.
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