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Abstract of title

interests, lines & encumbrances that reflect title to property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., an epitome of the evidence of title to property or power to deal with it. Every purchaser of land or real estate has

Accused, statement of

1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86), s. 12, directs the justices, after the close of the evidence for the prosecution, to ask him whether he wishes to say anything in answer to the charge, telling

Affidavit

a person having authority to administer an oath. By the practice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, all evidence is, as a rule, to be given viva voce; but this may be altered by agreement of the

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Costs

properly incurred by him in carrying on the prosecution, and to compensate any person properly attending to give evidence for the prosecution or defence, or called to give evidence at the instance of the court, for the

Criminal Procedure Act, 1885 (English)

'Mr. Denman's Act' (Chit. Stat. Tit. 'Evidence': Statutes Revised); an Act, as the Preamble states, assimilating thelaw of evidence and practice on trials for felony and misdemeanour, and other proceedings in courts of criminal judicature, to that

De bene esse

or about to leave the country, on the terms that if the witnesses continue ill or absent, their evidence be read at the trial, but if they recover or return, the evidence be taken in the usual

Denman's (Lord) Act

Denman's (Lord) Act (amending the law of evidence (6 & 7 Vict. c. 85 (the Evidence Act, 1843) provides that no person offered as a witness

Certified copy

Certified copy. As to when admissible in evidence, see Taylor on Evidence, and the Documentary Evidence Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 37), as to

discovery

itself would not be admissible at trial but that is likely to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Criminal discovery, however, has been more controversial. Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16, a defendant may obtain

Unsworn testimony

civil and criminal proceedings in Colonial courts, see 6 & 7 Vict. c. 22; and as to unsworn evidence of child on charge of defilement of girl under 13, see Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 4.

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