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Pardon
viewed does not warrant the judgment, the prisoner should assign and the Attorney-General should confess error on the record, whereby the judgment would be reversed and a similar suggestion was made by the Committee appointed in 1904 … Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment. The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all
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 … Summary Jurisdiction, the Courts of Quarter Sessions, the Court of Arches, the Consistory Court. Courts are either of record, where their acts and judicial proceedings are enrolled for a perpetual memorial and testimony, and they have power
Certiorari
Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, which, superseding the King's bench, is the sovereign Court of justice in criminal causes, all indictments, coroners' inquisitions, summary convictions by magistrates, orders of removal of paupers, and of poor's rates, … the king's name, to judges or officers of inferior Courts, commanding them to certify or to return the records of a cause depending before them, to the end that justice maybe done. Certiorari lies to remove into
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Charge-sheet
containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the Code, described as a 'charge-sheet', Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal Procedure … referral to a summary. Special or general court-martial for trial, and (4) for a summary court-martial, the trial record, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.
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. … to registration of Judgments, Chit. Stat., tit. 'Judgment and Execution' and 'Land Charges'; and see ESTOPPEL; CONTRACTS OF RECORD; ELEC-TION; FOREIGN JUDGMENT. The word 'judgment' is also used to denote the reasons given by the court for
Uses
by way of use, from one to another, by bare words only, without any solemn ceremony or permanent record of the transaction, whereby a third person that had right knew not against whom to bring his action. … tenants that held the lands could not be discovered. 'Fourthly. The king lost the estates of aliens and criminals; for they made their friends trustees, who kept possession, and secretly gave them the profits, so that their
Conviction
Conviction, the act of a legal tribunal adjudging a person guilty of a criminal offence. Thus a person will have been 'convicted' even though no punishment follows, e.g., where he is let … & 7 Wm. 4, c. 111); Larceny Act,1861, s. 116. A previous conviction is proved by producing a record or extract of it, and by giving proof of the identity of the person against whom the previous
Information
committed in the lands or other possessions of the Crown. It is instituted to redress private wrongs, while criminal information are resorted to punish public wrongs, or heinous misdemeanors. See EX OFFICIO INFORMATIONS; and (English) Crown Suits … Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge. Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in
witness
before a judicial tribunal or similar inquiry [a before a congressional committee] [no person…shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a against himself "U.S. Constitution amend. V"] compare affiant, deponent adverse witness : a witness … allegations initiate the prosecution of the defendant qualified witness : a witness who has sufficient understanding of a record-keeping system to provide testimony that forms the proper foundation for admission of evidence under the business records exception
Misprision
1 Hale, P.C. 374; 4 Steph. Com. Besides the last-described offence, the mere concealment of a felony is criminal, and is called misprision of felony; but if there be an assent, this makes the person assenting either … Bl. Com. 119 et seq. Misprisions of clerks are mistakes made by clerks, etc., in writing or keeping records
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