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directed verdict of acquittal
directed verdict of acquittal see verdict
Direct current
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Direct nomination
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Originating summons
Originating summons, a summons without writ, returnable in the chambers of a judge of the High Court. summonses of this description are very frequently issued in the Chancery Division for the determination of particular questions arising...
Default summons
Default summons, a procedure in the county courts for the summary recovery of a debt or liquidated demand. These summonses are of two kinds: (i.) Ordinary Default Summonses; and (ii.) Special Default Summonses. (i.) an Ordinary...
Peremptory mandamus
Peremptory mandamus, a second mandamus, which issues where the return which has been made to the first writ is found either insufficient in law or false in fact. To this writ no other return will be...
Re-summons
Re-summons, a second summons, calling upon a person to answer an action where the first summons is defeated. Obsolete
Judgment-debtor summons
Judgment-debtor summons. The (English) Bank-ruptcy Act, 1861, ss. 76-85, provided for the issue of this kind of summons by a judgment creditor in default of payment of whose debt the debtor might be adjudicated bankrupt. It...
John Doe summons
John Doe summons : a summons made out to an unidentified defendant who is referred to in the summons as John Doe
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