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False return
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Ringing the changes
words, and so with a third shilling. The shillings he returned being bad, this was an uttering of false money, 1 Russ. On Cr., 5th Edn. 231. fraud consisting in offender's using a large banknote to pay … good piece of money in payment of an article, he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the
Wilful disobedience
is by committal for contempt. A committal order may be made against a person who intentionally makes a false return to a writ of habeas corpus, but an unintentional misrepresentation on a return is not a ground for
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Peremptory mandamus
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 admitted, but a certificate of perfect obedience and
Falso retorno brevium
Falso retorno brevium, a writ that lay against a sheriff, who had execution of process for a false return, Reg. Jud. 43.
Consultation
judges of the King's Court, upon comparing the libel with the suggestion of the party, find the suggestion false or not proved, and therefore the cause to be wrongfully removed from the Ecclesiastical Court, then upon this … procedendo, whereby a cause, having been removed by prohibition from the Ecclesiastical Court to the King's Court, is returned thither again; for if the judges of the King's Court, upon comparing the libel with the suggestion of
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 … or refusal, the judges of the inferior Court might be punished for their contempt by writ of attachment, returnable in the courts at Westminster, 3 Bl. Com. 109. It also lay where an action had been removed
Reward
several years in England on the ground that persons committed crimes for the purpose of obtaining them by false accusations, and the Home Office, though urgently requested to offer a reward for the discovery of a series … Reward, a recompense for anything done. Something of value, usu. money, given in return for some service or achievement, such as recovering property, or providing information that leads to capture of a
Public meeting
address and, if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and liable on summary conviction … political meeting held in any parliamentary constituency between the date of the issue of a writ for the return of a member of Parliament for such constituency and the date of which a return to such writ
Vagrants
on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:- 1st, idle and disorderly persons; 2nd, rogues and vagabonds; 3rd, incorrigible … of his family whom he is bound to maintain shall become chargeable to any parish. (2) Every person returning to and becoming chargeable in any parish, etc., whence he, etc., shall have been removed by order of
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