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Husband and wife

Coleridge, J., in Ex parte Cochrane (1840) 8 Dowl. 630) considered to have a right to the personal custody of his wife; but in 1891 the Court of Appeal (Lords Halsbury and Esher and Sir Edward Fry)

Procedendo

particular judgment; for that, if erroneous, might be set aside by proceedings in error, or by writ of false judgment; and upon further neglect or refusal, the judges of the inferior Court might be punished for their

tribal court

administered through self-government of an American Indian tribe esp. on a reservation and having federally prescribed jurisdiction over custody and adoption cases involving tribal children, criminal jurisdiction over offenses committed on tribal lands by members of the

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House of correction

place of trial, it is enacted that a justice of the peace, or coroner, may commit for safe custody to any house of correction situate near the place where the assizes or sessions are to be held;

Detainer

before they are impounded he tenders me sufficient amends; now, though the original taking was lawful, my subsequent detention of them, after tender of amends, is not lawful, and he shall have an action of replevin against

Confession

to him at the trial because, for example, its contents can then be shown to be evasive or false or inconsistent with the maker's evidence on oath, Regina v. Z., (2005) 2 WLR 709 (Police and Criminal

release

also release of all claims compare hold harmless 3 : the act or instance of freeing esp. from custody

Judgment

and rather too remote because the plaintiff still possesses his full right to show that the defence is false and succeed in the suit. Thus, such an order passed by the Trial Judge would not amount to

Drunkenness

the first instance, the Act of 1898 is compulsory in certain cases, authorizing the Court to order the detention in an inebriate reformatory of an habitual drunkard convicted on indictment of an offence committed under the influence

discharge

release (a debtor in bankruptcy) from liability for his or her debts 2 : to release from confinement, custody, or care [ a prisoner] 3 a : to dismiss from employment : terminate the employment of b

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