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Home Dictionary Name: directed verdict Page: 2 Page 2 of about 46 results (0.004 seconds)Perverse verdict
Perverse verdict, a verdict whereby the jury refuse to follow the direction of the judge on a point of law. See NEW TRIAL....
Felo de se
Felo de se (a felon with respect to himself); one who feloniously commits suicide. The barbarous mode of burying such persons, in a place where four roads met, with a stake driven through their bodies, was abolished by 4 Geo. 4, c. 52, which directed burial in the churchyard or other burial ground (without divine service) between the hours of nine and twelve at night. The (English) Interments (Felo de se) Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 19), repealed and re-enacted the above Act, omitting the provisions as to the hours of burial, and allowing, by permission of the ordinary, a religious service, the Prayer Book expressly forbidding the use of the Burial Service therein contained in the case of those who die 'laying violent hands on themselves,' Escheat or forfeiture for felony is abolished by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23). A coroner's inquest (see CORONER) must beheld in every case of suicide, and in the absence of evidence of unsoundness of mind a verdict of felo...
Payment of Money into Court
Payment of Money into Court, i.e., the deposit of money with the official of or banker to the Court for the purpose of proceedings commenced in that Court. Payment into Court is not strictly a defence; it is rather an attempt at a compromise. No such plea was known to the Common Law; it is entirely the creature of Statute (Odgers on Pleading). By the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1852, s. 70, the defendant in all actions (except for assault and battery false imprisonment, libel, slander, malicious arrest or prosecution or seduction) might pay into Court a sum of money by way of compensation or amends, and by the Libel Act, 1843, money might be paid into Court in actions of libel, but this provision was repealed by the (English) Statute Law Revision Act, 1879.Payment into court is now regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. XXII, by which, where any action is brought to recover a debt or damages, any defendant may, before or at the time of delivering his defence, or by leave of the Court or a ...
democracy
democracy pl: -cies 1 a : government by the people ;esp : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections 2 : a political unit that has a democratic government dem·o·crat·ic [de-mə-kra-tik] adj dem·o·crat·i·cal·ly adv ...
render
render 1 : to transmit to another : deliver 2 : to furnish for consideration, approval, or information: as a : hand down [ a judgment] b : to agree on and report (a verdict) compare enter 3 : to give in acknowledgment of dependence or obligation : make payment of 4 : to direct the execution of [ justice] ren·der·able adj ...
Cestui que trust
Cestui que trust, the person (now frequently termed 'beneficiary,' as in s. 62 of the Trustee Act, 1925, who possesses the equitable right to property and receives the rents, issues, and profits thereof, the legal estate being vested in the trustee. The remedy of the cestui que trust, if the trustee fails in his duty, is by an action in the Chancery Division (in the majority of cases instituted by way of an Originating Summons). The phrase cestui que trust is Norman-French. In Roman Law obligations analogous to trusts could only be crated by testament; the trustee was (Heres) 'fiduciarius'; the beneficiary, 'fideicommissarius.' Sandars, Inst. Lib. 2 tit. XXIII....
Summing up
Summing up. The recapitulation of evidence or parts of it by a judge to a jury, with directions as to what form of verdict they ae to give upon it....
direct
direct 1 : to order with authority [the testator ed that the car go to his niece] 2 : to order entry of (a verdict) without jury consideration [the court ed a verdict in favor of the defendant] 3 : to act as director of vi : to act as director adj 1 a : stemming immediately from a source [ costs] [a claim] compare derivative b : being or passing in a straight line from parent to offspring : lineal [a ancestor] compare collateral 2 : marked by absence of any intervening agency, instrumentality, or influence [ consequences] 3 : effected by the action of the people or the electorate and not by representatives [ democracy] 4 : characterized by close logical, causal, or consequential relationship [a interest in the outcome of the litigation] di·rect·ly adv n : direct examination [testimony given on ] ...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Bill of exceptions
Bill of exceptions. Prior to the Judicature Acts, if a judge, at the trial of a cause at Nisi Prius, mistook the law, either in directing a judgment of nonsuit or in refusing or admitting evidence or challenges, and other matters, the counsel for the party dissatisfied with the ruling of the judge might tender a bill of exceptions at any time before verdict, and require the judge to seal it.By the Judicature Act, 1875, Ord. LVIII., r. 1, bills of exception are abolished. But it is provided by s. 22, 'that nothing in the said Act, nor in any rule, etc., shall prejudice the right of any party to any action to have the issues for trial by jury submitted and left by the judge to the jury, etc.: Provided also, that the said right may be enforced either by motion in the High Court of Justice or by motion in the Court of Appeal, founded upon an exception entered upon or annexed to the record.' It is believed that this section has never been acted upon. The present mode of proceeding is by mot...
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