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Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)

to appeal a transcript of the notes or any prt thereof shall be made if the registrar so directs, and furnished to the registrar for the use of the Court of Criminal Appeal or any judge thereof: … Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English) (7 Edw. 7, c. 23), came into force on the 19th April, 1908. For a

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Summons

a judge (or a master) to settle matters of detail in the procedure of a suit; as, for directions; to modify pleadings when inconvenient, to require security for costs, to change the venue, etc. There is an … to modify pleadings when inconvenient, to require security for costs, to change the venue, etc. There is an appeal from the decision of a master to the judge, and from the judge's decision to the Court of

writ

name of the sovereign or of a court or judicial officer commanding the person to whom it is directed to perform or refrain from performing a specified act NOTE: The writ was a vital official instrument in … error : a common-law writ directing an inferior court to remit the record of an action to the reviewing court in order that an error of law may be corrected if it exists NOTE: The writ of

res judicata

of res judicata precludes the presentation of issues in a post-conviction petition which have previously been decided upon direct appeal "Stowers v. State, 657 N.E.2d 194 (1995)"]: as a : a broad doctrine in civil litigation that … broad doctrine in civil litigation that requires and includes the barring of relitigation of settled matters under merger, bar, collateral estoppel, and direct estoppel : former adjudication compare bar estoppel by judgment at estoppel, merger b :

Prerogative of mercy

upon an appeal) or ferer any point to that Court (see also s. 4, ibid.). This is the direct adoption of a suggestion made by Sir James Graham to Baron Parke more than sixty years before. Cf. … Pap. 1904, cd. 2315, Rep.), may, if he thinks fit, be avoided under the provision in the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, s. 19, by which the Home Secretary may, if he thinks fit, refer the case to

Finding and direction

Finding and direction, The expression 'finding' and 'direction' are limited in meaning A finding given in an appeal, revision or reference … Finding and direction, The expression 'finding' and 'direction' are limited in meaning A finding given in an appeal, revision or reference arising out of an assessment must be a finding necessary for the disposal of the

mandate

1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b : mandamus 2 in the civil law of Louisiana : an … enjoin, probably irregularly from manus hand + -dere to put] 1 a : a formal communication from a reviewing court notifying the court below of its judgment and directing the lower court to act accordingly b :

Bill of indictment

and is signed by an officer of the court, can become an indicting. It may be preferred by directing or with the consent of a High Court Judge, or by direction of the court of appeal, or … by directing or with the consent of a High Court Judge, or by direction of the court of appeal, or where a person is committed for trial by examining Magistrates. In re Practice Direction, (1990) 1 WLR

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