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of the king,without a previous indictment or presentment by a grand jury. Criminal informa-tions are of two sorts: (1) Ex officio,

the proceedings. 'Proceedings' do not include the inquiry before the grand jury, R. v. Rhodes, 1899 (1) QB 77. Eight provisos

is called his cousin-german, or first cousin, and the child, grandchild, etc., of such cousin is called his first cousin once,

[fr. Cornu, Lat., a horn], a kind of tenure in grand serjeanty, the service of which was to blow a horn

Circar, head of affairs; the state or government; a grand division of a province; a headman. A name used by

Atavia, the mother of a great-great-grand-father or great-great-grandmother.

to whom he pleased. The Marquis of Exeter is hereditary Grand Almoner, Fleta, lib. ii. c. 22; Co. Litt. 94 a.

from the committee to the local Quarter Sessions, Imperial and Grand Hotels Co. v. Christchurch Union, 1905 (2) KB 239 (27

confederacy; a league. In this sense our histories mention the Grand Alliance, the Holy Alliance, and others. Also relation by marriage;

not, in prosecuting for offences, require the intervention of a grand jury, except in prosecutions for treason, which are conducted according