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Double first
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jeopardy
Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids double jeopardy for the same offense, and this applies whether the first trial ends in acquittal, conviction, or a mistrial. If a mistrial occurs due to a manifest necessity or … of conviction that an accused person is subjected to when on trial for a criminal offense see also double jeopardy NOTE: Jeopardy attaches, or comes into effect for double jeopardy purposes, when a jury is sworn in
Double or treble costs
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Double or conditions bond
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Conditional limitation
first limited, no condition or other quality could be annexed to this prior estate, which would have the double effect of defeating the estate, and passing the lands to a stranger, for as a remainder it was
House of Commons
fifty-five other inconsiderable places were deprived of the right of returning members, thirty boroughs were cut down from double to single representation, and Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and eighteen other boroughs first obtained representa-tion--having two members each
VerbarGastraeliga
A primeval larval form a double walled sac from which according to the hypothesis of Haeckel man and all other animals that in the … walled sac from which according to the hypothesis of Haeckel man and all other animals that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two layered structural stage or gastrula form must have descended
Marseilles
for certain kinds of fabrics which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other thus forming double cloth quilted in the loom so named because first made in Marseilles France
Quinone
crystalline substance C6H4O2 called also benzoketone first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone also by extension any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type
Jeopardy
trial when the first witness is sworn. Also termed legal jeopardy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 839. Double is the subjection of an accused person to repeated trial for the same alleged offence, Dictionary of Political
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